Broad Institute researchers have developed a way to edit the genetic sequences at the root of Huntington's disease and ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

Global health stories including rare illnesses, climate change, hypertension, and more, with a focus on little KJ Muldoon's ...

Full list of extinct animals being brought back from extinction As the power of gene editing becomes more advanced, ideas that once seemed like science fiction are rapidly becoming a possibility.Now, ...

The idea of U.S. scientists creating hybrid human-animal beings raises staggering ethical, legal, and scientific questions about the future of genetic engineering, biomedical research, and the ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended ...

GEN editors discuss both the news and history of DNA and genetic engineering ... a key member of the Human Genome Project. We discuss some of his career in this episode. Touching Base is the ...

As with human obesity, no single gene determined whether the dogs were prone to obesity; the net effect of multiple genetic variants determined whether dogs were at high or low risk. "Studying the ...

[Blueringmedia/Getty Images] Scientists at Yale University say they have published research that provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain ...

There are no guidelines on when to use genetic modification on humans, which brings up a debate on what circumstances warrant it. "Some people will agree that using genome editing to modify a ...

Throughout human history, mosquitoes have constantly ... It is therefore not surprising that the genetic engineering of mosquitoes and trials involving genetically modified mosquitoes have faced ...