Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a Silicon Valley startup, involves a couple with a genetic abnormality who want to ...

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Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

Today's high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 ...