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A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...
Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.
Sounds like science fiction...
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) recently released Facing Our History – Building An Equitable Future Initiative, a...
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The dodo has joined an exclusive club, becoming one of the species suggested for...
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world by creating the first children with edited genomes, says research must...
The multimillion-dollar costs of gene therapies -- the type that the state of California is helping to finance -- received...
The scientist at the heart of the scandal involving the world’s first gene-edited babies has said he moved “too quickly”...
Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first...
In June 2000, Bill Clinton, the then US president, stood smilingly next to the leaders of the Human Genome Project. ...
It’s easy to think of eugenics as something that happened far away from us, with ideals alien to our character...