Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced an amazing and potentially controversial new project to test the development of ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

Two new breakthroughs show how hard it is to know when the world has changed.

A human embryo at roughly three to four weeks of development. The Tiangong experiment uses stem cell-derived embryo models at ...

The new experiment from Egli and his colleagues represent the first time this technique has been used to edit embryonic cells ...

A new gene-editing breakthrough in human embryos raises the possibility of selecting certain traits in future babies while ...

China sent synthetic human embryos to its space station this month, the first experiment of its kind. The goal is to ...

Destructive Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research—The term “destructive human embryonic stem cell research” means any research that involves the disaggregation of any human embryo for the purpose of ...

It's a question that has baffled scientists for decades: could humans ever have babies in space? Now, China has taken a major step towards a definitive answer.