As genetics allows us to turn the tide on human disease, it's also granting the power to engineer desirable traits into humans. What limits should we create as this technology develops?

The findings have been reported in Cell. There are transposable elements in the human genome that are active in the earliest stages of human embryo development, when there is significant molecular ...

The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine is transforming medicine by expanding ... Featured Research Image (Above): The Drosophila embryo is a excellent model to ...

University of Queensland researchers have successfully produced the first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilisation (IVF ...

At the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in March 2023 at the ... This cell (now with the genetic ...

In the UK, primary legislation—the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990—already ... contraception and genetic abnormalities. The regulations now permit research into the development ...

Addressing these challenges through genetic interventions offers a promising ... A "News and Views" article published alongside the Nature study, "Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe ...