A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to ...

A study of long-lived families has identified rare genetic variants that may help people stay healthier for much longer as ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a large-scale screening approach that identifies ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.