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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...
For generations, the Yu family of Shanghai has suffered from type 2 diabetes. But this summer, as reported in the...
This week I wrote about a fascinating experiment that involved implanting human brain cells into rats’ brains. The brain...
Ken Burns’s recently released film, The US and the Holocaust, is, as anticipated, an excellent addition to his growing...
The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and...
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In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”...
Sometimes the barrier to medical advancement isn’t in the science. It’s the money.
In 2003 the first full sequencing...
It’s been nearly four months since the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, triggering restrictions in...
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A flock of gene-edited sheep has been used by scientists to pinpoint a promising treatment for...