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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 gene editing techniques that have revolutionized medicine since 2016 could also be used to treat common heart diseases, the...
Nick Bostrom, an influential philosopher at the University of Oxford who has been called the “father” of the longtermism movement...
Two prestigious campuses of the University of California are eyeing the creation of an entity that would cover the multimillion-dollar price tags...
I met the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt for the first time at a meeting at West Point in 2015 that was...
The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of...
Around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, a masked man broke into a house about a mile from the University of...
Each day, around 350 people in the United States die from lung cancer. Many of those deaths could be prevented...
Russian troops mobilised to fight in Ukraine will be offered sperm freezing and fertility treatment, it has been announced.
Increasing...