Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the ...

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

The annual ICCS showcase aims to celebrate Indian culture and fundraise to help children in Colorado Springs get access ...

Testing showed that Gonzalez’ ALS was caused by a mutation in the SOD1 gene (Super Oxide Dismutase 1), which meant she was ...

After Kate Middleton and Prince William sued a Parisian news outlet for publishing photos of them and their three kids during ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...

Genes linked to childhood intelligence also predict parents living longer. Study of 400,000 people reveals biology connecting ...

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

Former Giants center Shaun O’Hara and quarterback Eli Manning mourned the sudden passing of Jets center Nick Mangold, who ...

Scientists have long thought of DNA as an instruction manual written in the four- chemical bases—A, C, T, and G—that make up the genetic code. The prevailing belief was that by decoding these ...