Genetic testing during pregnancy helps spot a baby’s risk of inherited disorders or chromosomal abnormalities. This article examines its pros and cons straightforwardly and engagingly. Learn what ...

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.

A large biobanking effort captures genetic and health data from half a million people in Taiwan, widening the diversity of ...

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

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...