Because of existing UN conventions and protocols, according to environmental law experts, a moratorium would have limited practical impact. For that reason, this debate feels like an era-defining ...

University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash explores the findings of an experiment that introduced ...

Many people are skeptical of genetic engineering, and especially of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food, even though innovations like drought-resistant wheat and insect-resistant corn ...

In an unprecedented leap in scientific discovery, a new lifeform has been constructed using a mere 57 genetic instructions.

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

The complex portrayal of transhumanist themes in the critically acclaimed sci-fi series will make you rethink everything.

Fibroblasts, cells that repair heart damage, might end up causing a vicious cycle of stiffening and scarring in certain heart ...

In his novel “Brave New World”, human beings are designed as cogs in the industrial machine. Advances in genetic engineering mean that future might not be far away. Genetic screening now allows ...

CRISPR-GPT, a large language model developed at Stanford Medicine, is accelerating gene-editing processes and increasing accessibility to CRISPR.

Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S.