Maxine Singer, a molecular biologist who helped map the inner workings of DNA and led seminal debates in the 1970s that contributed to the first guidelines on the potential risks and ethical ...

Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction — it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

Are our consciences keeping up with our biotech advances? Lately I have found myself participating in three distinct discourses about parenting. The first is a heady one among intellectuals about the ...

The Coos Bay Public Library is pleased to sponsor a Chautauqua presentation by Gregory L. Fowler, of Oregon Health and Sciences University, entitled "Redefining Humanity: Moral and Ethical ...

On September 8, 1966, Star Trek first aired in the United States, launching a cultural and technological imagination that has profoundly shaped public ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.