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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

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

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

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

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

Scientists Create Litter of Mice From Two Male Fathers

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

“Superager” Genes Can Shave a Decade Off Heart Age, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

CRISPR, like many other powerful and complex tools, has… a bit of a PR problem. Is that holding it back from broader integration into health therapies?

This CRISPR Researcher Says Gene Editing Isn’t Playing God

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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.

Police Say They Used Genealogy Database to Arrest Idaho Murder Suspect

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.

Scientists Think Gregor Mendel Would Be “Happy” That They Dug Up His Body to Study His Genetics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists in China claim to have genetically modified tobacco plants to be able to produce cocaine — but don't get too excited just yet, kids.

Scientists Gene Hack Random Plant to Grow Cocaine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops Upload Image of Suspect Generated From DNA, Then Delete After Mass Criticism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

By Frank Landymore

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

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.

Science & Energy

Giant Tortoise, Thought to Be Totally Extinct, Suddenly Found Chilling on Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Turns out dogs may have learned some of their human social skills from a previously undiscovered genetic mutation according to a Nature story.

Geneticists Figure Out Why Dogs Are So Friendly to Humans

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Kids who played video games saw a positive impact on their intelligence, European scientists say in new study published in the Nature journal.

Good News, Gamers! That Screen Time Could Make You a Little Smarter, Scientists Say

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

An updated lawsuit claims that a DNA analysis of the sandwich chain Subway's putative tuna shows that the substance contains anything but.

Science & Energy

Lawsuit Claims That Subway “Tuna” Contains Extremely Weird DNA

By Jon Christian

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 inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

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 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

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

The biotech company Oxitec has now released its genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, where it hopes they'll reduce local bug populations.

Biotech Company Officially Unleashes Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in Florida

By Dan Robitzski

Futurism reported on Oxitec, a biotech company releasing millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida. It turns out that Bill Gates helped.

Science & Energy

Bill Gates Funded the Company Releasing Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

A biotech company called Oxitec plans to release 500 million gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys -- and residents are furious.

Residents Furious at Release of 500 Million Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

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

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

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.

Science & Energy

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.

Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.

Scientists: Genetically Modified Trees Could Fight Climate Change

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

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

Rising temperatures are a big problem for the dairy industry, so scientists are gene-hacking cows to keep them cool and help them survive.

Scientists Tried to Gene Hack Cows to Survive Climate Change but the Cows Died

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a gene-hacked version of the fall armyworm, a notorious pest, that lays eggs that die off before hatching.

Scientists Gene-Hacked a Pest Caterpillar’s Eggs to Self-Destruct

By Dan Robitzski

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

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

Genetics research is full of errors because Microsoft Excel reformats some gene names into calendar dates. To fix it, scientists just renamed the genes.

Science & Energy

Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel

By Dan Robitzski

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy seems to have staved off a young boy's Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suggesting new treatments could be on the way.

RX and Medicine

Gene Therapy Lets Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

23andMe released a massive study that traced and revealed new apsects of the transatlantic slave trade through genetic ancestry reports.

23andMe Releases Devastating Analysis of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

By Dan Robitzski

After news broke of the scope of China's DNA-collecting program, scientists and experts warn of enhanced surveillance and persecution.

Scientists Speak Out Against China’s GATTACA-esque DNA Collection

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists assume the first life on Earth used RNA and that DNA developed later. But an experiment suggests both genetic molecules formed at the same time.

Experiment Shows That DNA May Have Existed Before Life

By Dan Robitzski

China has been taking blood samples from every man and boy in the country in order to build a vast genetic database of their DNA.

China Is Building a Genetic Database of Every Man in the Country

By Dan Robitzski

By genetically modifying goats, scientists found a way to make them manufacture expensive cancer medications in their milk.

Scientists Gene-Hack Goats to Make Cancer Drug in Their Milk

By Dan Robitzski

A biotech company wants to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Texas and Florida to curb insect-spread disease.

Scientists Fight Plan to Release Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in TX, FL

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible

By Dan Robitzski

In order to equip future Martian settlers, scientists suggest altering their DNA to give them the traits they need to survive.

Astrobiologist: We Should Gene-Hack New Traits Into Mars Settlers

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.

Scientists: COVID-19 Spread Globally for Months Before We Noticed

By Dan Robitzski

A company developed genetic tests to determine whether someone's more likely to catch COVID-19 and, if they do, whether they'll have a more severe case.

Free DNA Test Claims to Warn Whether COVID Is Likely to Kill You

By Dan Robitzski

The longfin inshore squid can alter its own genetic code on the fly, and new research shows its the first animal to do so outside of its cells' nuclei.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That a Squid Can Edit Its Own Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to sequence the entire genome of the axolotl, a salamander capable of regenerating injured body parts, and hope to use it in people.

Scientists: Salamander DNA Could Regenerate Human Body Parts

By Dan Robitzski

A group called the Earnest Project claims it took DNA samples from world leaders who went to the World Economic Forum in Davos. It's planning an auction.

Privacy Activists Plan to Auction Off Trump, Other World Leaders’ DNA

By Dan Robitzski

Once again, experts are warning that consumer DNA tests will eradicate people's privacy and make them vulnerable to workplace discrimination.

Experts: Corporations Could Do Terrible Things With Your DNA

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that cancer-linked mutations can occur years before any symptoms appear, potentially giving doctors a new tool to diagnose it early.

New Research: Cancer Symptoms Can Appear Years Before Diagnosis

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists sequenced the entire giant squid genome, revealing new hints into how the unusual creature reached its huge size and developed a complex brain.

Researchers Finally Sequence Giant Squid’s Entire Genome

By Dan Robitzski