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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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

Despite the regulatory and funding roadblocks, Murray and fellow researcher Elizabeth Maga continue to work on a line of genetically engineered goats, which carry a human gene that produces elevated ...

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