An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new framework for scientists detecting and measuring microplastics in the human ...

Gene editing sounds like progress until it becomes policy. This story follows a future where CRISPR and AI reshape humanity in the name of perfection. Diseases vanish, IQ rises, and society stabilizes ...

On December 24, Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, encouraged people to try the Grok chatbot’s new image editing feature. Users quickly ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to their neighbours, boosting the effect ...

I am a single mom to an 18-year-old son who will be going off to college in the fall. Recently, my phone was damaged and ...

We like to think of ourselves as hardy Wisconsinites, capable of braving the bitter cold to enjoy life during the winter. But over the next few days, when forecasts predict wind chills as low as minus ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...

Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called RentAHuman.ai to advertise their skills.

Inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) are rare, devastating disorders caused by pathogenic variants in genes encoding key metabolic enzymes, with the liver playing a critical role in over 140 IEMs. Liver ...