A proposed rule change would allow the government to routinely gather people's biometric data without a warrant.

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might ...

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest ...

Researchers from Radboud university medical center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited blindness. Their study ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.

Scientists have unlocked a 51.7-million-year old genetic secret to a landmark theory proposed by English naturalist Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago.

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

If a company sees its development not just as a set of projects, but as a large-scale, flexible organization that is able to ...

The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the ...