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New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

By Frank Landymore

An Austin eugenics startup apparently counts billionaire Elon Musk and his girlfriend, Neuralink director Shivon Zilis, among its clients.

Elon Musk Using Eugenics Startup to Inspect DNA of Potential Babies for Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.

Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

By Sharon Adarlo

Each can comes secured in a "lab-sealed specimen jar," containing Ozzy's signature, and of course, a sample of his spit.

You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA in Twelve Easy Payments

The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a type of CRISPR gene-edited pig for human consumption.

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked CRISPR Pigs for Human Consumption

By Victor Tangermann

As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data.

23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History

By Victor Tangermann

That mad scientist who created designer babies is, apparently, gearing up for more human gene-hacking research.

Rogue Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Human Babies Gear Up for More Human Experiments

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genetics firm 23andMe, maker of the once-popular take-home DNA testing kits, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, casting a looming shadow.

23andMe Is Crumbling, and That Means Your Genetic Data Is Blowing in the Breeze

By Victor Tangermann

The scientist who went to prison for gene hacking a pair of twins in China is now decrying the ethics that punished him.

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Human Babies Says Ethics Are “Holding Back” Scientific Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the "de-extinction" startup Colossal Biosciences studied mammoth DNA to recreate their woolly hair in lab mice.

Scientists Modified Genes In Mice to Give Them Traits of Woolly Mammoths, and the Results Are Frankly Adorable

By Frank Landymore

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

A Mouse With Two Dads Has Reached Adulthood

By Frank Landymore

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers

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.

Infamous Billionaire Accused of Running Bizarre Human Birthing Scheme

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.

As 23andMe Crumbles, It Ceases All Efforts to Develop Drugs Using DNA Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

As 23andMe Slides Into Bankruptcy, Your DNA Hangs in the Balance

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.

Super-Expensive Startup “Screening” Parents’ Embryos for IQ

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.

Every Member of 23andMe’s Board Except the CEO Just Resigned in Disgust

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Scientists Build Computer From DNA That Can Solve Chess Problems

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Propose Fortress of Earth’s DNA Samples Housed on the Moon in Case of Apocalypse

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Scientists Discover Gene That Causes You to Gain More Weight From the Same Food

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.

Thousands of Patients to Be Given World’s First Cancer Vaccine

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Young Patient Dies After Receiving Pfizer Gene Therapy

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.

Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA

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.

Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

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 Experiment Halted as Patient Gets Weird Side Effects

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.

Scientist Who Gene-Edited Human Babies Back in the Lab Again After Prison Release

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.

Scientists Manage to Cut HIV Out of Individual Cells

By Victor Tangermann

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

Dog DNA Company Insists Human DNA Is Actually Alaskan Malamute

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Cow Hacked With Human DNA Produces Milk Containing High Levels of Human Insulin

By Victor Tangermann

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

Startup Clones Three Piglets Gene-Hacked to Have Organs Transplanted Into Humans

By Victor Tangermann

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

23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value

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.

Genes Aren’t Actually the Blueprint of Life, Experts Say

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.

23andMe Has Lost Billions, Almost Worthless Now

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Way to Turn Genes On and Off Like Light Switches

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.

Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

By Victor Tangermann

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

Adopted Child Accused of Secretly Being an Adult Takes DNA Test to Prove Age

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.

DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret

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.

Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm

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.

Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo

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!

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

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.

Scientists Say We Bred With an Extinct Human Species and It Left a Grim Change in Our Brains

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.

Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

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.

Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe

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.

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

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.

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

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.

Doctors Thrilled as Pig Kidney Functions in Human Patient for Two Full Months

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.

Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Had Plan to Transform Humankind

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

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.

Scientists Just Made Intriguing Progress Toward Regenerating Human Teeth

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.

New Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Booze Consumption in Alcoholic Monkeys

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Scientists Successfully Reverse Hearing Loss in Mice

By Frank Landymore

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

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Is Finally Getting Paid by the Biotech Company That Stole Her Cells

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.

Scientists Use DNA to Construct Material Lighter and Stronger Than Steel

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.

Smoking Weed Appears to Make Alterations to Your Genetic Code

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.

Scientists Surprised by DNA in Worms That Control Hosts’ Brains

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 Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

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.

Experts Alarmed by Tech That Identifies Human DNA Floating in Air

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!

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages

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 Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

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.

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

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.

Mom Says Creeps Used AI to Fake Daughter’s Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

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

Tech CEO Says Burger With Mammoth DNA Tastes Delicious

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.

Wisconsin Firebombing Suspect Arrested From DNA Left on Burrito

By Noor Al-Sibai