Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman of OpenAI and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong are among the notable names investing ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

Scientists have kept a genetically modified pig kidney working inside a brain-dead man for 61 days – and successfully ...

Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Doctors at New York University say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making cross-species ...