In 2015, Jennifer Doudna, codeveloper of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, convened a meeting in Napa, Calif., aimed at setting the parameters for ethical use of the groundbreaking genomic technique. Her template for the proceedings was a meeting of scientists that...
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As applications of advancing DNA forensics continue to become more accessible, some worry that police may misuse this technology.
The only type of couple that would be unable to have a healthy, at least partially related, child through existing means is one in which both individuals carry two abnormal genes for the same dominant condition. Given the rarity of such a scenario, the unique benefit of germline editing is extremely limited in its application—a fact that must be emphasized in the discussions surrounding germline editing.
Plans for the National Health Service to sequence the DNA of every baby born in the UK, starting with a...
By the time Sarah Chamberlin’s fertility doctor declared her genes “incompatible” with her husband’s and said the clash might be...
For police officers around the country, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent...
In the autumn of 1869, Charles Darwin was hard at work revising the fifth edition of On The Origin of...
Joseph Vitti’s stomach turned when he opened a link an acquaintance had sent him. It took him to an app...
Moscow biologist and DNA specialist Denis Rebrikov has spent much of the past year kicking a scientific and ethical hornet's...
Two years ago, news headlines began to appear about a development that made many human geneticists uneasy. A U.S. company...
CRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and...