Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help ...

Eight healthy babies were born in the UK using DNA from three people to prevent rare mitochondrial diseases. The groundbreaking technique involves transferring parental DNA into a donor egg with ...

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?

Eight children in the UK have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro ...

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, ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

With better growth and less height, stalks are denser and stronger than standard corn. Anchoring into the soil increases with ...

Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or only min… ...

To shed light on this topic, a research team led by Junior Associate Professor Taku Ito from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Japan, explored how pigmentation influences hearing loss ...

Scientists in Britain have created healthy “three-person babies” through a groundbreaking method designed to stop fatal genes ...