Our understanding of DNA has grown dramatically over the past couple of decades. The CRISPR technology, which allows scientists to map and even change DNA, has helped to boost that understanding even ...

He Jiankui is reportedly once again editing the genes of human embryos in the lab, but he claims his experiments will now follow the rules. Reading time 2 minutes A Chinese scientist once jailed for ...

Nearly a day after TikTok was restored to U.S. users in a dramatic game of chicken with the federal government, another popular service owned by China-based ByteDance is still dark. CapCut, the ...

While researchers have long appreciated the enormous potential of genome editing to treat disease, applications of these technologies in humans have historically been limited by safety concerns. Even ...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has had a significant impact on several industries, but one in particular has earned the public’s attention: digital image manipulation ...

Around 2018–19, there was not a bigger science and ethical story than the debate over heritable human genome editing (HHGE) and the scandal over the “CRISPR babies.” The scientist, He Jiankui, who ...