What happens when new technology meets old laws
What if you could make your cat hypoallergenic with biotechnology?
“Gene drives,” a technology for controlling genetic traits, could revolutionize disease prevention. But nature has a way of thwarting scientific meddling.
When dolls and friendly robots can listen and respond to what people say, where's the line between personal assistance and mass surveillance?
A visit to a facility in Guangdong province, where researchers are tinkering with monkey brains in order to understand the most severe forms of autism
A group of scientists is pushing ahead with plans to build whole genomes—including human ones—from scratch.
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.