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As appalling as it sounds today, the practice of sterilizing mentally ill women and men to prevent them from passing...
In a disappointing and deeply divided opinion released today, the California Supreme Court upheld a state law law mandating DNA...
The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...
From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits...
It's been four decades since Louise Brown became the first human to be been born after conception by IVF, and...
Sperm donation offers a tidy solution to an aggravating problem: When a person or a couple wants a baby and...
Dr. Joshua Clayton, a 29-year-old radiology resident at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, wanted to learn about his ancestry....
When the Golden State Killer case was cracked in April with the help of a genealogist and an open-source ancestry...
The Food and Drug Administration not long ago announced its authorization that permits genetics testing company 23andMe to market a...