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This company plans to offer genetic health screenings, but only the super...
J. Craig Venter, the scientist who led the project to sequence the first human genome, is getting into the elite healthcare business.Venter's company Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) has announced plans to...
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Why you're more likely to get sick in the winter — and how to stay healthy
Ever wonder why you only seem to catch a cold when it's, well, cold out?Of course, germs — and not the weather — are the real culprits here: You have to come into contact with the bugs that cause...
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An unprecedented study points to the origins of 'all dogs alive today'
Dogs have been man's best friend for thousands of years, but where that friendship first began has always been up in the air.Most researchers agree that domestic dogs evolved from gray wolves, though...
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This controversial tech company is finally ready to test your DNA again
Personal genomics company 23andMe has officially resumed a service that tells curious customers what lurks in their DNA, including some inheritable diseases.The move comes nearly two years after the US...
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Chinese scientists just made the world's first genetically edited, super...
Get ready for designer dogs.Researchers in China have created the first dogs whose DNA was modified by gene editing.By tweaking a dog’s DNA to cut out a gene for the muscle-limiting protein myostatin,...
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This controversial tech company is finally ready to test your DNA again
Personal genomics company 23andMe has officially resumed a service that tells curious customers what lurks in their DNA, including some inheritable diseases.The move comes nearly two years after the US...
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A genetics startup with a rocky start is taking steps towards developing drugs
Personal genetics testing company 23andMe is moving ahead with more than one groundbreaking aspect to its business.Two weeks ago, the company announced that it had raised $115 million in late-stage...
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DNA from 2 infants buried 11,500 years ago may shed light on where the first...
Scientist have long debated how humans originally arrived in the Americas. The prominent idea has been that a sort of land bridge formed during the last ice age and people migrated from Asia.But people...
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Modern genetics means you should say goodbye to privacy
We want to protect the information that's most personal to us.Yet our personal genetic blueprint — which can be used to identify a person, predict certain diseases and traits, and will likely reveal...
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This scientist made a Nobel-winning discovery but never got credit for it...
If ever there was a case of someone who didn't get the recognition she deserved, it's Rosalind Franklin.The British-born chemist did pioneering work that led to the discovery of the structure of...
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Scientists may soon be able to 'cut and paste' DNA to cure deadly diseases...
On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite cadre of scientists gathered to discuss a simple yet incredibly powerful new genetic...
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Scientists tweaked mosquito DNA to block malaria in its tracks
Malaria is a devastating disease, and all it takes to get infected is a mosquito bite.But there may be a way to reduce its spread.Using a new genetic editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9, scientists...
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A pair of researchers has come up with a way to store all of Wikipedia or...
Robert Grass says that though we believe information is here forever, it’s actually fragile. Hard drives and physical sources of information, like books, decay over time. In a video for the BBC, Grass...
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2 leading biologists say we should allow gene editing on human embryos
A controversial new genetic technology called CRISPR that offers a way to easily and accurately cut and paste bits of DNA inside the cells of any organism is taking the world by storm.It's already been...
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2 leading biologists say we should allow gene editing on human embryos
A controversial new genetic technology called CRISPR that offers a way to easily and accurately cut and paste bits of DNA inside the cells of any organism is taking the world by storm.It's already been...
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Florida police used a smidgen of DNA to try to fully reconstruct an alleged...
A genetics company called Parabon Nanolabs recently analyzed some remnants of DNA from a crime scene — not for fingerprints, but to create a digital likeness of the alleged criminal's face, Science...
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The major concern about a powerful new gene-editing technique that most...
Scientists, bioethicists, and members of the public have descended on Washington, DC this week for an international meeting to discuss the ethics of a promising lab technique that lets scientists edit...
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CRISPR, the gene-editing tech that's making headlines, explained in one graphic
A startlingly simply method for cutting and pasting DNA has been making waves lately.Scientists and policymakers are meeting in Washington, DC December 1-3 to debate the use of CRISPR/Cas9, a tool that...
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'Designer babies' aren't happening any time soon
This week, scientists gathered in Washington, DC for the International Summit on Human Gene Editing to discuss a technology called CRISPR-CAS9, which can insert, remove and change the DNA of basically...
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A parent whose child died tragically says a controversial technique could...
Little Amalya only lived for an hour and 20 minutes.The child was born with anencephaly, a devastating and almost always fatal condition in which parts of the skull and brain to fail to develop. After...
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