A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Experts believe technology may soon allow humans to slow or even reverse aging, with companies racing to make immortality a ...

Scientists around the world are racing to bring back extinct species — from the woolly mammoth to the dodo — using the power of genetic engineering. While it sounds like science fiction, new ...

Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second ... “Rather than a predetermined script based on fixed genetic instruction sets, we humans are living, breathing ...

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid in the ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (Duncan NRI) have created a new way to measure genetic variants in the ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

On ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, a scientist shares a bold timeline and method for when/how technology and AI may begin to replace “pure” humans. If there were ever a podcast to openly address the ...

OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at ...