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With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.

Project to study all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths finds ‘two species in the act of being created from one’

Discovery offers unprecedented insight into the genetic makeup of animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.

When considering human settlements on the Moon, Mars and further afield, much attention is given to the travel times, food and radiation risk. We’ll undoubtedly face a harsh environment in deep space and some thinkers have been pointing to genome editing as a way to ensure that humans can tolerate…

Such virus DNA makes up about 8 per cent of the human genome, according to previous studies

About 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so frigid that it spontaneously freeze-dried, locking its DNA fragments into place.

In a world-first study, we have revealed and analysed remarkably preserved fragments of ancient DNA from the skin of a woolly mammoth.

Modern human DNA may have made up a surprisingly large amount of the Neanderthal genome, a new study finds.

In a breakthrough that could boost de-extinction efforts, scientists have determined the 3D structure of a woolly mammoth's genome from a 52,000-year-old piece of freeze-dried skin.

Researchers build genome using 52,000-year-old remains of woolly mammoth named after ex-England footballer