A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Some biotech companies in Silicon Valley are secretly attempting to create banned "genetically modified babies," The Wall ...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed ...

Researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy have come under fire for a study involving feeding genetically modified food to children. In February, a group of 32 scientists from ...

A new generation of genetic engineering techniques, collectively known as “gene editing,” is being hailed as a game-changer in the life sciences. The highest-profile of the new methods, CRISPR, was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators will consider this week whether to green light a provocative new fertilization technique that could eventually create babies from the DNA of three people, ...