A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap in science and ethics. A US scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned […]

LONDON: Michael Jackson cloned his DNA before he died to create a troop of mini-Jacksons and perfect copies of himself, it has been revealed. Scientist Michael Luckman, who learnt about the popstar’s sperm scheme from Jackson’s costume designer and friend Andre Van Pier, said in his new book that he made “safe deposits” of his sperm in three different medical facilities across the world. Pier first learned of the cloning […]

Mothers outnumbered fathers throughout much of human history, a new DNA analysis of people around the world shows. The genetic findings offer evidence for polygyny, when one man has many wives, and other reproductive customs, as people migrated out of Africa. “[Historically] more of the women were reproducing than the men,” study researcher Mark Stoneking, a professor of biological anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, […]