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Latest in Genetics

A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact.
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

An infamous insurance billionaire has been accused by several women of operating a bizarre "baby project" to build a giant white family.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the year since its hack, 23andMe has lost all of its value and most of its governing board — and somehow, things just keep getting worse.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

23andMe is on the brink of bankruptcy. Legal scholars are concerned about the possible data privacy implications.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" human embryos in IVF for IQ levels. Does it work? Unclear.
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nearly the entire board of directors for 23andMe has resigned — a move that apparently was news to its overly-optimistic chief executive.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DNA computer can play a pared down version of chess and can potentially store data for thousands of years.
DNA

By Frank Landymore

To combat growing extinction threats, scientists are proposing an out-of-this-world concept — keeping at-risk cells on the Moon.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that mutations of the gene SMIM1 have a significant link to obesity and extra weight gain.
DNA

By Sharon Adarlo

The UK's National Health Service is fast-tracking patients for its new cancer vaccine trials that customize each jab to each patient.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

During an important Pfizer medical trial a young boy suffered a fatal sudden cardiac arrest after receiving experimental gene therapy.
Gene Editing

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

A former Thiel fellow has launched a startup allowing parents to pick which embryos they want to incubate based on which has the best genes.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a human gene-editing drug trial aimed at reducing heart disease due to serious side effects.
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roughly a year and a half after being released from prison, Chinese scientist He Jiankui has resumed research on human embryo gene editing.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've been able to literally cut out the "bad" bits of DNA from infected cells to eliminate HIV using CRISPR gene editing.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

An at-home DNA testing kit for dogs claimed that human saliva returned various dog breed results on two separate occasions.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have created a gene-edited cow that produces human insulin in her milk in Brazil.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese startup PorMedTec claims to have cloned three piglets to have their organs be viable for transplantation to humans.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

For decades, most people have believed that genes are the blueprint for life — but that perception, a pair of experts argue, falls short.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe could soon run out of money after burning through over a billion dollars in cash.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists from Texas have developed a method to control gene expression by switching them on and off via molecular means.
Genetics

By Sharon Adarlo

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.
Genetics

By Victor Tangermann

A DNA test has confirmed the biological age of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian orphan who has a rare genetic dwarfism condition.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

The holiday season means presents galore  — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by an ex-patient of non-consensually inseminating her with his own sperm.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Interbreeding with the Denisovans left us with a gene that helped us with the climate, but left us vulnerable to mental disorders.
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

The New Yorker documented the life-changing ambitions of He Jiankui, the scientist who gene edited human babies, leading to infamy and prison.
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has taken an important step toward a future where we can regenerate human teeth with the use of stem cells.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists took a bunch of alcoholic macaque monkeys and then successfully weaned them off alcohol after a round of gene therapy.
Gene Editing

By Sharon Adarlo

By activating a defective gene in mice, the researchers were able to restore their hearing to almost normal levels.
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

Henrietta Lacks' family has won a settlement from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech firm that made billions by selling Lacks' cells.
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have created a glass that uses DNA as its skeleton that far outclasses steel in strength and weight — at the nano-scale, at least.
DNA

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that smoking weed for years may change parts of your genetic code that can even be passed down to your offspring.
DNA

By Sharon Adarlo

We know that parasitic worms called hairworms can "mind control" their host. But as it turns out, they're also missing huge amounts of genes.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just gave the OK for a new genetically-modified pig sausage to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked sausages for all!
Gene Editing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

Criminals used an AI to clone the voice of the 15-year-old girl to fake a kidnapping, and tried to get her mother to pay a ransom.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Paleo, a Belgian competitor experimenting with mammoth protein, says a plant-based burger injected with mammoth myoglobin is delicious.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2022 firebombing of an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin via DNA he left on a burrito.
DNA

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's finally happened — scientists have brought about the birth of baby mammals using stem cells from two males to create lab-made eggs. 
Gene Editing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018. Now, he speaks out about some of his regrets.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

The genes of people who live past 100 may help those of us who age less gracefully stay heart-healthy for longer thanks to some exciting new research. 
Genetics

By Noor Al-Sibai

San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio has claimed that its technology was able to extend the lives of old mice.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

Police have made an arrest in the University of Idaho murder case, using "public genealogy databases" to link the alleged killer's DNA to the crime scene.
DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the Czech friar credited with being the father of genetics.
Genetics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billions of male chicks are culled each year, so scientists have approached this grisly reality by limiting the amount of males born via gene-editing.
Gene Editing

By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists has recovered 2 million years old DNA from a variety of plants, fish — and even an ancient mastodon.
DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at UCSF say they've developed a new treatment that causes cancer cells to rat on themselves, allowing the immune system to easily kill them.
Genetics

By Frank Landymore

After examining blood samples from 14 NASA astronauts, researchers found that samples from all 14 astronauts showed mutations in their DNA.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, there may be ways to improve or even reverse disabilities associated with Down syndrome with the use of a new hormone treatment.
Gene Editing

By Victor Tangermann