Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

In the 22nd century, manipulation of the human genome became commonplace. Techniques of genetic engineering advanced to the point where the rich could custom-build fetuses that grew into stronger, ...

Could cow milk be the new cure for diabetes? Researchers have genetically modified a brown cow in Brazil to produce human insulin in its milk, which marks a breakthrough in diabetes treatment research ...

Researchers in Berlin have used base editing to repair mutations that cause the kidney disorder ADPKD in cells from both mice ...

With such striking effects, many scientists see modulating the microbiomes as a promising avenue for improving human health and wellbeing. In recent years, researchers have shown that tweaking the ...

Genetic engineering is moving from science fiction to reality with breakthroughs that could cure diseases and reshape ...

An international team of researchers led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Copenhagen in ...

Humankind struggled to survive during a 100,000 year period during the early Pleistocene, according to researchers who used a computer model to discover a severe population bottleneck in our species’ ...

FDA reviewing trials that sent U.S. citizens' biological samples abroad for genetic engineering. NIH assessing whether federally funded trials exploited policy exemptions for foreign processing. Want ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new approach for using locked nucleic acids (LNAs)—a particularly stable ...

The FDA has approved genetically engineered salmon for consumption. — -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has approved the first genetically engineered animal ...