In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that the first children had been born from embryos whose DNA had been modified using CRISPR technology. Twin girls, known as Lulu and Nana, were born with the CCR5 gene modified in an attempt to confer immunity to HIV.

The lost city of Atlantis has always captured the imagination of many a lover of the unsolved mysteries of the distant past. A group of scientists from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), however, might fuel talks about the legendary city anew, as they discovered a submerged mountain off the coast of the island of […]