Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable ...

The Canadian government's recent approval of the first gene-edited animal to enter the food system has reignited debates over ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients, finding that many conditions involve similar genes and may not need ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it takes for cells to behave in desired ways—for example, getting them to produce ...

During Supreme Court oral arguments for the West Virginia v B.P.J. case on trans athletes in women's sports, American Civil Liberties Attorney Joshua Block suggested that "sex" should not be defined ...

A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway. One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch ...

Tony Dokoupil is the anchor of the new "CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil." He previously served as co-host of "CBS Mornings" and anchored "The Uplift," a weekly series spotlighting positive and ...

The future of personalized medicine is rapidly becoming a reality, powered by advances in genetic testing and healthcare. Once limited to research labs, genetic insights are now transforming how ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

Source: Alison Escalante, ChatGPT / OpenAI Conversations about autism are often complicated by the fact that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) looks and feels different in different people. Because of ...