News
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...
Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.
Sounds like science fiction...
Hongjie mao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
In late 2018, when He Jiankui announced that he had created...
By Fotograf Kallestad, Gorm / NTB Scanpix. CC BY NC 4.0
In vitro fertilization (IVF), widely known as a way...
This month, Francis Collins will step down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than...
DNA microarray image by Guillaume Paumier,
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Unported licence, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientists say...
If I placed before you an atom with one proton and one electron, you would be forced to admit it...
The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations...