A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

It has been another stellar week for Genedrive after it revealed signs of commercial traction for its technology, followed by ...

A 2007 home invasion and sexual assault case was solved nearly 20 years later using advanced DNA genealogy, authorities say.

A large biobanking effort captures genetic and health data from half a million people in Taiwan, widening the diversity of ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are crucial for preserving biodiversity ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

What if a single test could simultaneously contribute to the diagnosis, characterization, and treatment guidance of childhood ...

A growing number of people are getting genetic testing for breast cancer, which has become more comprehensive and ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced ...