Japan is set to outlaw research and treatments involving the genetic modification of human fertilized eggs using genome ...

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui spent three years in prison after 'creating' three genetically edited babies. Back in the laboratory, he continues to defend experiments with humans, although now he only ...

Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female ...

The scientist who stunned the world by claiming he created the first genetically modified babies defended his actions publicly for the first time on Wednesday, saying that editing the genes of the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Peter Champelli: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, November 14th. I'm ...

A scientist in Sweden has started trying to edit the DNA in healthy human embryos, NPR has learned. The step by the developmental biologist Fredrik Lanner makes him the first researcher known to ...