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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.

Scientists Gene Edit Hens To Lay Eggs That Can Stop Developing Into Male Embryos

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.

Scientists Sequence DNA They Found From 2 Million Years Ago

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.

New Treatment Turns Cancer Genes Into “Eat Me” Signs For Immune System

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Found Genetic Mutations in Every Astronaut Blood Sample They Studied

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.

Scientists Say New Treatment May Improve Cognition for People With Down Syndrome

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists study the immortal jellyfish to learn about its DNA reproduction, life cycle and telomeres. New research reveals its special genes.

Scientists Say They Found the Genes That Makes Immortal Jellyfish Immortal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The late Nichelle Nichols's DNA is to be launched into space on a Vulcan rocket, and will be joining Gene Roddenberry on the final flight of the Enterprise.

Nichelle Nichols’ DNA To Join Gene Roddenberry in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists in the UK have created "synthetic" mouse embryos without egg or sperm cells. It's a breakthrough in the field of genetic engineering.

Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryos Without Sperm or Eggs

By Victor Tangermann

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

By Frank Landymore

New Jersey has revealed that it used a newborn DNA sample to charge the child's father with a crime from 1996, which begs the question — what next?

Cops Use Newborn Baby’s DNA to Nail Dad for Crime from the 90s

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker's yeast for the first time.

Mad Scientists Create Human Bread Yeast in a Lab

By Victor Tangermann

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup containing DNA may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Investigators Analyze DNA Sample to Make Arrest in 1975 Murder

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol.

Doctors Gene-Edit Patient’s Liver to Make Less Cholesterol

By Victor Tangermann

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

By Victor Tangermann

The rise of “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.

Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a new gene therapy technique, researchers at the University of California San Diego reduced neuropathic pain in mice that were experiencing spinal cord or other nerve injuries — and with no side effects.

Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy

By Victor Tangermann

Animal researchers in the UK are teaming up with Chester Zoo to save endangered animal species from going extinct using crogenetically frozen tissues.

Zoo Saving DNA From Rare Animals In Case They Go Extinct

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago say research shows binge drinking effects in youth can be reversed with CRISPR gene editing.

Scientist Say They Might Be Able to Reverse Binge Drinking With Gene Editing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters reports.

Scientists Find DNA Building Blocks in Asteroids

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers claim to have slowed the signs of aging in mice by resetting their cells to younger states.

Scientists “Elated” by Treatment They Say Made Mice Genetically Younger

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.

Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

By Tony Ho Tran

The 500-pound bear known as Hank the Tank became perhaps the cutest and yet most terrifying criminal in the US justice system in many centuries this week.

DNA Evidence Exonerates Giant Home-Invading Bear

By Lonnie Lee Hood

San Francisco cops are accused of entering the DNA of sexual assault victims into a database to help identify criminals — resulting in at least one arrest.

Cops Allegedly Used a Sexual Assault Survivor’s DNA to Arrest Her for Property Crime

By Tony Ho Tran

In her new book "The Genesis Machine," futurist Amy Webb warns that terrorists could create viruses in a lab and use them for nefarious purposes.

Scientists Warn That Terrorists Could Release a Horrifying Virus

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the gene-hacked pig heart beating during the historic operation earlier this month, surgeons used a drug cocktail that includes cocaine.

The Pig-Human Heart Transplant’s Secret Weapon? Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's predominant futurists believes that we're not too far off from breaking the genetic mold.

Expert Says Children Will Soon Have More than Two Biological Parents

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time ever, a team of US surgeons have transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a living human — a huge milestone.

Doctors Transplant Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Into Living Human Patient

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong has launched a new "epigenetic reprogramming" company with the goal of extending the human health span.

Billionaire Launches Startup to Reprogram Human Gene Expression

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent tweet, Lil Nas X would love to go all the way — and perform sexual acts with himself. But will science ever make his dream come true?

Lil Nas X Says He Wants to Clone Himself and Have Sex With the Copy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have made a surprising discovery that could redefine how we understand aging, potentially paving new ways to prevent balding.

New Genetic Discovery Could Finally Explain Balding

By Victor Tangermann

Journals retracted two papers that they say failed to meet ethical standards because they were based on blood samples taken from China's Uyghur population.

Genetics Papers Retracted Over Human Experimentation Scandal

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have discovered a new DNA structure they call the "Borg" that assimilates genes from other microorganisms in its surroundings.

Scientists Discover Extremely Long “Borg” DNA

By Tony Ho Tran

Sandwich chain Subway is in full damage control mode after a New York Times investigation found last month that there is no trace of tuna DNA in its tuna.

Subway CEO Says Sandwiches Definitely Contain Tuna, Regardless of What That DNA Test Said

By Victor Tangermann

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.

WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

A international team of researchers were able to show that castration of male sheep delays the aging of DNA.The same could apply to humans as well.

Wanna Delay Aging? Get Castrated, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A man was charged with rape after uploading his genetic code to a genaelogy site, giving police the DNA match they needed for a case from 2007.

Man Charged With Rape After Uploading His DNA to Ancestry Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists created a census of the algae causing the Alps' pink snow to better predict what it means for the changing environment.

Scientists Sequence DNA Found in Pink Snow That Covered Mountains

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a key difference in how human and mosquito DNA organizes into chromosomes then figured out how to morph them back and forth.

Scientists Morph Human DNA Into Mosquito DNA Structure

By Dan Robitzski

The International Society for Stem Cell Research just loosened up decades-old restrictions on how long scientists can keep lab-grown embryos alive.

New Regulations Let Scientists Keep Lab-Grown Human Embryos Alive for Longer

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.

Doctors Restored a Blind Man’s Vision by Gene-Hacking His Retina Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Oxitec, the biotech company behind the gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, is now planning to release genetically engineered fall armyworms.

Biotech Firm Behind CRISPR Mosquitoes Is Working on Other Gene-Hacked Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The gene-hacked mosquitoes released in the Florida Keys by the biotech company Oxitec are finally old enough to fly and reproduce.

Florida’s Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes Have Hatched and Taken Flight

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.

Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic sequencing startup is putting famed geneticist George Church's own DNA for sale as an NFT.

A Harvard Scientist Is Selling His Genetic Code as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.

CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

By Dan Robitzski

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.

Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in Sydney have identified a new gene in zebrafish that could allow human hearts to repair themselves following a heart attack.

Gene Hack Could Heal Heart After Heart Attack

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.

Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can now filter freely-floating DNA out of the air, allowing them to track and monitor what animals are in the area.

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a gene therapy that was shown to reverse some aspects of aging and extend lifespans in mice.

New Gene Therapy Reverses Aging in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have managed to program data into the DNA of living bacteria for the first time, allowing the data to be passed on to the next generation.

Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

A physics student used a scanning tunneling microscope to built a "Christmas tree" that's barely thicker than a DNA strand.

World’s Tiniest “Christmas Tree” Is Barely Thicker Than a DNA Strand

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just approved a gene-hacked pig that was specifically engineered to not produce the allergen alpha-gal for human consumption.

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

By Dan Robitzski

John Ratcliffe, the U.S. national intelligence cirector, wrote in an op-ed that China experimented on military members to try and create supersoldiers.

US Official Claims China Is Testing Biologically Enhanced Supersoldiers

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new book, Chinese scientist He Jiankui had the support of several Communist Party officials while working on his gene-editing experiments.

Communist Party Secretly Supported Chinese Gene-Edited Babies, According to New Book

By Victor Tangermann

By reversing molecular changes that happen naturally with age, a team of scientists restored vision to blind mice that they made more genetically youthful.

Harvard Scientists Claim to Reverse Mouse Aging at Cellular Level

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery mechanism for gene-editing enzymes allows doctors to target specific kinds of cells or regions of the brain.

New Injection Can Gene-Edit Specific Parts of the Brain, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just announced the discovery of two organisms that eats viruses — the first credible finding of that type of creature.

Scientists Discover Organisms That Eat Viruses

By Jon Christian

A Russian biologist plans to gene-hack more CRISPR babies in an attempt to prevent deafness despite other scientists' warnings.

Russian Scientist Still Plotting to Create More CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists mapped the physical structure of the coronavirus' genetic code at an unprecedented level of detail in hopes that they can find ways to stop it.

Scientists Create 3D Map of Entire Coronavirus Genetic Structure

By Dan Robitzski

This is bad: scientists say that a staggering 40 percent of coronavirus cases in Boston can be traced to a single biotech conference.

Scientists: A Single Event Caused 40% of COVID Cases in Boston

By Jon Christian