The air-cleaning qualities of plants get a genetically modified boost Neoplants’s marquee product, announced late last year, is the Neo P1, the first houseplant genetically...

America’s first IVF baby is pitching a way to pick the DNA of your kids Elizabeth Carr is head of commercial development Genomic Prediction, a...

The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent...

How do fungi communicate? As fungi grow, they are constantly sensing, learning, and making decisions. Fungi are like polyglots: they both “speak” and understand a...

A test told me my brain and liver are older than they should be. Should I be worried? Elysium’s analysis of my saliva, which I...

Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming. Most research into the microbiome has focused on the trillions of bugs...

'Better Drugs, Better Health': A Human Genome Pioneer Talks About the Future of Genetics...

The Human Genome Project Turns 20: Here's How It Altered the World...

We can use stem cells to make embryos. How far should we go? This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter....

Synthetic embryos have been implanted into monkey wombs But within 20 days of transfer, the monkey blastoids stopped developing and seemed to come apart, say...