Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...

CNN — Genetically-modified babies are "highly desirable" to help protect people from disease and could be created ethically within two years, according to a new scientific paper. Gene editing now ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical guidelines and claimed he had produced genetically modified babies designed to resist HIV infection.

The Manhattan Project was the name given to the top-secret programme to develop the first ever nuclear weapons during the Second World War. It’s also the nickname Cathy Tie uses for her biotech ...

Rebecca Ramirez (she/her) is the founding producer of NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. It's a meditation in how to be a Swiss Army Knife, in that it involves a little of everything — background ...