Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction—it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell Scientists are creating the most comprehensive map ever of genetic changes ...

In addition, germ cells require a specialized environment, or niche, provided by the supporting somatic cells in which to differentiate.

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy are two quite different proposals, and the legitimate concerns and risks of the former should not be used to stall progress on the latter.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...