LONDON – In a landmark decision that some ethicists warned is a step down the path toward “designer babies,” Britain gave scientists approval Monday to conduct gene-editing experiments on human ...

For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a marvel of molecular precision, the path it took to evolve remains unclear. Fresh ...

Biologists have made a major breakthrough by using artificial intelligence to design the complete genetic blueprint of a ...