The leading U.S. scientific organization, responding to concerns expressed by scientists and ethicists, has launched an ambitious initiative to recommend guidelines for new genetic technology that ...

A new technology known as gene drive can increase the likelihood that desirable engineered traits in a mosquito are passed on to all of its offspring in the next generation, ultimately spreading ...

Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna will join an all-star gathering of world leaders in the field for a free public forum, The Future and Ethics of Genome Editing, May 23 on the CU Boulder campus.

A revolutionary gene-editing technology made headlines this year as much for the ethical and societal issues it raised as for the scientific accomplishments it enabled. CRISPR (pronounced crisper ...