T he genetic engineering of human beings has been a dream and a nightmare since scientists first speculated about it a century ago. Futurists and transhumanists have long thought that genetic ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ethical.

Now that the technology has shown promise in human cells, the researchers plan to test mvGPT in animal models, ... (2025, January 8). A new era in genetic engineering. ScienceDaily.

Scientists have coined the term "reprogenetics" to describe the combined use of reproductive and genetic technologies to select, and someday even genetically modify, embryos before implantation ...

Researchers at the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University have developed a model that accurately ...

In his wonderful book “As Gods,” a thoughtful, lively and evocative exposition of the history of genetic engineering, English zoologist Matthew Cobb teaches us how, just a few centuries after ...