Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Dr. Lucy L. Brown, a neuroscientist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine who has studied the neural basis ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

Researchers have more work to do to determine exactly how nanoplastics affect cell function, but they fear that the particles ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

It took 20 years to get surrogacy laws passed here, yet holes in the legislation means surrogate families remain in legal ...

Gestational surrogacy is never a solo act. The medical, legal, and emotional layers are real, which is exactly why building ...

Humans stand out among mammals for our ability to run long distances without falling apart. That ability links back to early ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, reproduction and migration of many species. But in the age of artificial light ...

Manhattan Genomics is advancing next-generation medical technologies to correct harmful mutations at the embryonic stage. The company's singular mission is to prevent severe inherited conditions, such ...

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To maintain a Darwinian perspective on culture we must view humans as passive imitators and transmitters, ignoring cthe ...