By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would ...

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

Gene editing sounds like progress until it becomes policy. This story follows a future where CRISPR and AI reshape humanity in the name of perfection. Diseases vanish, IQ rises, and society stabilizes ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it takes for cells to behave in desired ways—for example, getting them to produce ...

A Bay Area biochemist has launched a new company to further research on gene editing on human embryos. Lucas Harrington said the research will focus on using the technology to prevent genetic disease ...

BOSTON – Dyno Therapeutics hosted an ambitious event in Boston this week, the Genetic Agency Technology Conference (GATC)*, striving to bring together a broad coalition of researchers and executives ...

In a 15-patient, Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy safely reduced LDL cholesterol and triglycerides in people with difficult-to-treat lipid disorders, ...