Is it safe to let humans play God and create new organisms - animals and plants - that have never existed in Mother Nature? If genetic engineering attempts to refit and alter the alphabets in the DNA ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Every year, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but ...

In 2010, researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute created a synthetic cell complete with man-made genetic instructions. And while synthetic biology is still a nascent field, it could potentially ...

Evolutionary biology and faith in God are not incompatible, two professors asserted at the international Rimini Meeting, an event that brings hundreds of thousands of people to Italy. "A proper ...

Imagine an American public school where science textbooks were obligated to debunk Charles Darwin; where students could deny global warming and still get an A, and where college professors could tell ...

Leading Hong Kong scientists have criticised the Education Bureau for tacitly encouraging schools to promote creationism in biology lessons through its guidelines on teaching evolution. Four senior ...