The team at Sun Yat-sen University used a technique called base editing to correct a single typo out of the three billion "letters" of our genetic code. They altered lab-made embryos to remove the ...

In 1896, in his seminal work “The Cell in Development and Inheritance”, the cell biologist Edmund B. Wilson formulated a ...

The U.K.’s independent Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted scientists legal permission to alter the DNA of embryos in the first seven days after fertilization, although they are ...

Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families. It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 ...

Researchers believe that understanding this process in embryo development will help understand ... the Molecular Genetics of ...

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.