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In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...
Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...
A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict. The level...
Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics...
The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have...
Years ago, I interviewed for a residency position at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Standing before the domed Victorian...
A decade ago, researcher Haruko Obokata caused a sensation when she published two papers in the journal Nature, in which...
A Canadian DNA laboratory knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out...
Acompany started by University of Pennsylvania scientist Jim Wilson has received FDA approval to test a form of gene editing...