Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Samira Kiani is a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the co-producer of Make People Better, which premiered at this week at Hot Docs. The views presented are ...

This article examines Judaism and the position on the ethics of genetic engineering, including the issue of Tay Sachs, a genetic disorder which affects a proportion of the Jewish population. Jewish ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

The Fulani people are Africa’s largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 African countries, from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to ...

Amid all the hype about genetic testing, some medical professionals are concerned that a far more low-tech way of predicting disease is getting overlooked: a given patient's family health history. A ...

Kylie Charles spent years carefully weighing the pros and cons of genetic testing until her curiosity got the better of her. The 36-year-old writer yearned to know more about her distant father and ...