Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth.

A clinical trial for zinc-finger nucleases, a potential new method of curing genetic diseases, kicks off.

Now let’s see what they can do with it.

Zhongzhong and Huahua are the first monkeys cloned by the same method that created Dolly the sheep.

It’s the first time RNA interference will be used to kill insect pests.

He Jiankui chose a famous mutation to edit into human embryos. Scientists are still trying to figure out everything it does.

Here’s what I’ve learned, and why I did it.

LeapsMag is supposed to be independent of the pharma giant, but the venture still raises ethical questions.

Oxytocin, often lauded as the “hug hormone,” might not be necessary to induce affection.

Ranchers are waiting for hundreds of millions of sterile flies to be produced, or for a technological breakthrough.