Leading Korean and U.S. scholars in synthetic biology gathered in Incheon to identify the key tasks that will shape the next 10 years. Lee Sang-yeop, a distinguished professor at the Korea Advanced ...

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

The nomadic Turkana people of Northwest Kenya are superbly adapted to living in one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, with so little greenery that they base their diet on animal products, ...

It comes amid the release of a new report by genetic technologies opponent, not-for-profit GE-Free NZ which questioned the success and ethics of past trials.

For millennia, aging has been viewed as an immutable, inevitable decline. However, a scientific revolution is underway, ...

MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique with promise for treating numerous ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as ...

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists. He had made the world's first gene-edited babies. Through rewriting DNA in twin ...

Smarter design through targeted delivery and human-relevant testing can save the industry from costly safety failures.

Vence L. Bonham Jr., Acting Deputy Director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and an investigator in the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Division of Intramural ...

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