Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a living organism according to our suitable design. This attention-seeking branch ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Distinguished University Professor and director of the Law-Medicine Center, present "The ...

Human genetic engineering has always been the stuff of science-fiction novels and blockbuster Hollywood films. Except that it is no longer confined to books and movies. Scientists and doctors are ...