Adam Barsouk, Contributor

While gene editing is grabbing the headlines, technology to genetically select babies is already available and has been in use for years. Does it hold the same potential to transform humanity, and should it raise the same qualms?

Some animals have taken the quest for immortality to an extreme, living hundreds of years without aging a day. How do they do it, and can we use their secrets to extend our own lives?

To many, Thanksgiving is an incredibly important time of the year, but it can also be an unhealthy showcase of gluttony. Learn the nutritional secrets to having a healthy and authentic Thanksgiving dinner.

Most adults suffer from back pain, but the origin of the problem may not lie in our back but in our feet. How we evolved to walk millions of years ago can shed clues on how best to live today.

From supplements to cosmetics, Americans spend billions searching for an elusive fountain of youth. The more we learn about the molecular functioning of our body, the more we realize the cure to aging may be hiding in plain sight.

Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is an illness with symptoms similar to polio, and it’s preying on children in the very same city where Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine over half a century ago.

Step by step, our feet have spent the past four million years perfecting their shape. Running shoes have changed our gait in an instant Can we outrun evolution’s intentions, and what can you do to safeguard your feet?

Same-sex biological children were once a thing of fiction, until know. As scientists have grappled to make a viable mouse pup from two moms or dads, they have also further elucidated a molecular tug-of-war between mom and dad’s genes that is behind man…