"Many challenges we face today are reminders of how painful and frightening it can be to confront an issue in which values ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...

In a significant leap forward for neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have successfully created a transparent squid. This feat, accomplished in 2023 through ...

The GA4GH is uniting researchers worldwide to share genomic data responsibly, set open standards, and improve oncology care ...

New models show that our brains are "pre-wired," and that electrical activity begins even before any external experiences ...

New discoveries are showing how genetic variations can affect our health, from disease risks to how we respond to medicines.

The increasing integration of genomic medicine into routine medical care brings to light issues of complexity and uncertainty ...

A sociologist who researches AI’s impact on work and education argues there are ethical dimensions to generative AI that ...

Debates about generative artificial intelligence on college campuses have largely centered on student cheating. But focusing on cheating overlooks a larger set of ethical concerns that higher ...