Almost 100 years ago, Carrie Buck was raped, labeled an “imbecile,” and sterilized by order of the state — all in the name of genetic progress. Today, we no longer use that word, but the dream of ...

A city research centre plans to use tomatoes to test the impact of gene-edited food in what is thought to be the first human ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...

New research has uncovered a mechanism for parents to pass down longevity, to their progeny, via changes to their lysosome ...

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 ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

Awareness about haemochromatosis - a genetic condition that also affects people from Scotland, Wales, England, and Brittany - is still relatively low. Iron plays an essential role in the human body, ...

Genetic variants of interferon-lambda or type-3 interferon (IFN-L), one of three types of proteins that help the immune system fight infections and diseases, show sex-specific effects, with healthy ...