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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...
The heirs of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman who died in the 1950s and whose cells have been reproduced for...
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough...
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This story starts, of all things, with...
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...
A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by...
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in...
Earlier this year, investment bank UBS put out a report heralding artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, saying it was...