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 ...

In the face of the very real cross of infertility that many couples face today, the Church instead promotes research into ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

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

Soul AI Lab, the AI technology team behind the social platform Soul App, has officially open-sourced its voice podcast generation model, SoulX-Podcast. Designed specifically for multi-speaker, ...

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can ...

Scientists around the world are racing to bring back extinct species — from the woolly mammoth to the dodo — using the power ...

Feinberg School of Medicine New research reveals the second language of the human genome – one not written in its chemical letters but in its physical shape. Scientists have long thought of DNA as an ...

Babies could be born without a biological mother after scientists created functional human eggs from skin. American ...

In a stunning display of circular thinking, a leading science writer ends her paean to genetically engineering wild animals by writing: “Humans are the ones driving biodiversity loss of all species.

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Neanderthals could walk among us within 20 years — but would reviving our extinct cousin rewrite science or unleash an ...