Would you get a one-time genetic modification such that you'd never have to take a GLP-1 drug for weight loss ever again?

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Recent advances in reproductive technology, including advances in germline genetic modification via CRISPR, may re-introduce the eugenics envisioned in yesteryear. We now have two methods of designing ...

In humans the gene for this enzyme is located on chromosome 2 ... If genetic modification methods which are developed to fix this and other fatal genetic defects do not also fix the fatal ...

Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, offers recommendations for identifying the ...