In this scientific opinion article, Ben Wollack examines the promises and risks of GMOs in America's agricultural and social landscapes.

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Respondents said they worry about AI's increase in use for cognitive tasks like creativity, relationship building, and problem solving.

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

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

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

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture.

A newly developed tool utilises AI to predict how cells repair their DNA after it is cut by gene editing tools such as CRISPR ...

Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of ...

Northwestern scientists have developed a new nanostructure that supercharges CRISPR’s ability to safely and efficiently enter cells, potentially unlocking its full power to treat genetic diseases. By ...

Immune-checkpoint therapy (ICT), which attempts to harness a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized ...

A research team in China has successfully transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead individual for the first time. The team, led by He Jianxing, a professor at the First ...