Genetic-ancestry tests are having a moment. Look no further than Spotify: On Thursday, the music-streaming service—as in, the service used...
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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Within the Defense Department, one agency’s recent project sounds futuristic: millions of insects carrying viruses descend upon crops and then...
Japan has issued draft guidelines that allow the use of gene-editing tools in human embryos. The proposal was released by...
Shortly after her 40th birthday, Sarah Chamberlin and her husband Julio interviewed reproductive endocrinologists at four different clinics in...
California's kids now have common-sense protections against unwarranted DNA collection. Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed A.B. 1584, a...
Researchers have rendered a population of mosquitoes in a lab sterile using the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 by homing in on...
Over the past 25 years, we’ve become surprisingly comfortable with the idea that genes play a large role in our...
It’s never a good time for another bout of genetic determinism, but it’s hard to imagine a worse one than...