Powerful gene-editing tools have the potential to heal—or to harm. Now there’s a race to develop the antidote to the nex...

A quest to understand how human intelligence evolved raises some ethical questions.

A team at George Church’s Harvard lab wants to redesign species with large-scale DNA changes.

Some of the biggest names in gene editing want to stop anyone from playing around with cells that pass on changes to the...

A new genetic test that estimates your risk for diabetes is probably less useful than standing on a scale.

Laying out two decades of evidence for the mysterious “Planet 9,” a team of astronomers predicts that if it exists, it’s...

Companies are searching gene databases for people whose DNA says they should be very sick, but who aren’t.

15 million babies are born prematurely every year.

A novel dementia treatment will flood people’s brains with a low-risk version of a key gene.

The habitable zone around other stars has been defined as the region where liquid water can exist on a planet’s surface,...