This article examines Judaism and the position on the ethics of genetic engineering, including the issue of Tay Sachs, a genetic disorder which affects a proportion of the Jewish population. Jewish ...

In his novel “Brave New World”, human beings are designed as cogs in the industrial machine. Advances in genetic engineering mean that future might not be far away. Genetic screening now allows ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday initiated an immediate review of clinical trials that involved sending Americans’ living cells to China and other foreign adversaries for ...

Scientists are hoping to use genetic engineering to reduce the transmission of Lyme disease. The scientists' target is not ...

In a new study published in Nature Genetics titled, “The long-term effects of chemotherapy on normal blood cells,” researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ...

Sightings of the iconic species have been sparse since the early 20th century. The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company ...