Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...

Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman of OpenAI and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong are among the notable names investing ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...