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

Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a living organism according to our suitable design. This attention-seeking branch ...

Is it okay to genetically engineer wild plants and animals? The International Union for Conservation of Nature voted in favor ...

Experts believe technology may soon allow humans to slow or even reverse aging, with companies racing to make immortality a ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay.

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

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

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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.

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger — the woolly mammoth. This "woolly mouse" marks an important step toward achieving ...