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Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.

The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.

The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.

How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.

“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”

We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.

A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.

It marks a breakthrough in using gene editing to treat diseases.

From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.

From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.

Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.

Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.

For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.

“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research.”

She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.

The book “The Genesis Machine” outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.

Surely they can’t be worse…can they?

Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?

Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.

An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

Could we all attain this superpower?

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

Could this spell the end for mosquitos?

Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn’t banned gain-of-function research.

It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.

A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.

Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.

The potential of CRISPR technology is incredible, but the threats are too serious to ignore.

An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won’t grow a tail.

Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.