At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

The Dog Aging Project analyzed blood samples from companion dogs to uncover ptmAAs as biological markers of aging.

Should we genetically modify wild lions? Of course not, might be your instant response. But what if lions were being wiped out by a devastating disease introduced by people? What if the genetic change ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

Ingestible electronics. Microneedle patches. A capsule that could replace insulin shots. In Giovanni Traverso’s lab, the ...

US researchers create microscopic DNA “flowers” that mimic life, folding and unfolding to adapt and deliver medicine.