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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Imagine a not-so-distant future, when a 60-year-old man named John Doe goes to the doctor to replace a faulty gene...
"Henrietta Lacks historical marker; Clover, VA," by EMW licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Like many women, I...
Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they...
The FDA's Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., thinks gene editing—specifically base editing—could be a "game changer," but progress has been slow, likely due...
Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients...
On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the ...
Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...