Genetics

When artificial sperm and eggs become a reality, the sex of your babymaking partner won't matter.

Jargon from the pre-genomics era blinds us to new possibilities.

But it’s positive.

If you’ve been waiting to get your genome sequenced, will a virtual token really make you change your mind?

Forget editing genes. This guy wants to write brand-new ones. by Steven Kotler

Racing against his own genetic disorder, Onno Faber is giving people with rare diseases the tools to make medicine work for them.

Craig Venter is betting that something is lurking in your body and you’d better address it now.

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

Teleported molecules, custom genomes, and other innovations that will deliver on the technology’s biggest promises.

A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.

Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you. by David Ewing Duncan

A handy chart for sorting out many of the options in DNA analysis.

Companies are using your DNA to customize a diet plan. If it works, it might not be for the reasons advertised.

The secrets in your genes may be worth even more to researchers than they are to you.

Sophia Roosth puts big questions to the people who are reviving extinct species and building organisms from scratch.