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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
On 23 September the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published findings from its review of consumer law compliance in the...
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As governments around the world are lobbied by industry with claims gene editing can deliver rapid...
Genetic tests that predict the efficacy of certain cancer treatments aren’t as effective for people of African or Asian ancestry...
In October of 1990 the U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook what...
In 1904, Nature printed a speech about eugenics by the statistician Francis Galton. One of the foremost scientists of his...
Growing failure of Roundup Ready crops provides opportunity to phase them out and adopt new methods and technologies
The cultivation...
As a rapidly advancing climate emergency turns the planet ever hotter, the Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has a vision: “To...
The American history curriculum — if you can even call it that — is a slippery thing. Unlike many other...