Biologist Matthew Cobb has examined both the potential and dangers of genetic engineering and has created a history of the world’s so-far inept attempts to appropriately regulate the new science.

Her book, Origin: A Genetic History Of The Americas (Twelve Books, 2022: Amazon US / Amazon UK) details what we do know and how we know it, what we don’t know, ...

In contrast to Neanderthal DNA, which makes up approximately 2% of the current human genome in non-Africans, ancient admixture was as much as 10 times higher and is present in all populations.

The Genetic Age. Matthew Cobb. Profile Books. FOR more than 50 years, biologists have been genetically engineering organisms in increasingly precise ways. From the early, crude methods of the ...

In his wonderful book “As Gods,” a thoughtful, lively and evocative exposition of the history of genetic engineering, English zoologist Matthew Cobb teaches us how, just a few centuries after ...

Half a century ago, the first genetically modified organism ushered in a new era of biological innovation. To mark this anniversary, here are eight milestone GMOs. Many have had, or are poised to ...

The idea of bringing back extinct species has gained traction thanks to advances in sequencing of ancient DNA. In recent years, scientists have recovered genetic blueprints from the remains of ...

In this approach, T cells were removed from the patient, and treated with genetic engineering to correct the mutation in the DNA of those T cells.The cells were then reinserted into the patient. For ...

image: New study sheds light on the origin and distribution of a specific variant of the CARD9 gene in East Asia. By comparing the CARD9 variants found in a group of Korean and Japanese patients ...

A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of Africa left its mark on the DNA of ancient Swahili people. A new analysis of centuries-old bones and teeth collected from six burial ...