Genetics

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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.

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.

Hit with a rare disease, Onno Faber formed a startup to hack it — and he’s taking on conventional medicine in the process.

Researchers are finding new links between specific genes and intelligence. Can we use this knowledge to make people smarter?