Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change how we prevent disease, age, and define human potential. The same tools ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

This week a diverse group of researchers, bioethicists, publishers and theologians, are gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to extend and expand the rolling debate about the merits of human ...

In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an artificial-intelligence program called AlphaFold2. For decades, scientists had struggled to understand how ...