That's something the people behind the biotech company CRISPR Therapeutics are banking on. They arg…

In a recent essay for the New England Journal of Medicine, Eric S. Lander, the founding director of…

The micropigs have already been used in studies of stem cells and gut microbes, and the animals' sm…

Autism often involves repetitive behaviors and problems with social interaction. In Rett Syndrome, …

To treat these diseases, scientists have started looking into how to stop the mosquitoes. One step …

Consider the bulldog with its wrinkled face, the dachshund with its long back, and the pug with its…

[W]e can be confident that, whatever it means, ability of this kind would far exceed the maximum ab…

This technique, called "gene drive," provides the power to spread engineered DNA to an entire speci…

This also is not the first time a rabbit has been genetically modified to glow bright green, either…

The Hindu system of thought has a very powerful core concept: Tat Tvam Asi or I Am He. Instead of w…

So there you have it. This was a research paper that used bioinformatic methods to ask yet again if…

In 1981, a group of scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and other assorted charact…

The California biotech is still selling some treatments for kidney disease, bone health, and brain …

And delving into the "perfect human" waters starts to get ethically murky very fast, especially if …

After the technology is proven, liberals would likely demand that governments subsidize genetic eng…

"I view the announcement of the FDA to approve the AquaBounty [genetically engineered] salmon for p…

"We are on the cusp of a new bio-revolution," one UN official, who requested anonymity, told The Gu…

So if that lethal gene doesn't work, the worst that could happen is that it doesn't do the job of c…

Humans have been genetically modifying plants since we first started domesticating and breeding the…

Over the past two years, scientists at a number of universities, including Pennsylvania State Unive…