As genetics allows us to turn the tide on human disease, it's also granting ... Still, contemplation of these and other issues related to genetic engineering is important should the ability ...

Human enhancement, from wearable devices ... The firm aims to reproduce this effect in humans. Only one genetic enhancement (as opposed to gene therapies for conventional medical purposes) is ...

Yet this genetic similarity is very real ... It was also mind-boggling when, in 1987, British researchers demonstrated that a human gene could be inserted into the cells of a lowly yeast ...

Philip Kitcher, a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (Simon & Schuster, 1996). Here, in a frank and ...

But this technology has other applications. Scientific and public uproar resulted when the Chinese scientist announced the births of the first human babies with heritable edits to their genes.

Ultimately, genetic enhancement does not belong in sports as it undermines the spirit of competition. Even if these enhancements were unrestricted, they are still morally troubling as they tarnish the ...

This allows researchers to trace waves of human populations as they spread throughout the world—particularly in Eurasia, where most of this type of genetic sequencing has been happening ...

Genetic engineering has revolutionized the field of medicine by enabling the production of recombinant proteins, such as insulin and human growth hormone, in bacteria or other host organisms. Gene ...