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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
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...
Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation...
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...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing biotech company Regenxbio to reapply for licensing of a gene therapy...