Stanford researchers and their collaborators have revealed a new device that could change the way scientists conduct ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, ...

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he wants to ...

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...