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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long...
During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, ...
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...
Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team...
Birthrates in much of the developed world are at record lows, but there’s one demographic group that’s exploring new frontiers...
A research program at the National Institutes of Health released the world’s largest database of human genomes and paired them...
In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a...