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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...
A California institute founded by Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna proposed a new model this week for “solving one of the...
Adding, removing or swapping individual base pairs in the genome can make a huge difference to the functioning of a...
Scientists have discovered that the cells of early human embryos are often unable to repair damage to their DNA caused...
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who sparked global outrage in 2018 when he revealed that he had created the first...
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Microbes have been on my mind this week. These tiny organisms are everywhere, and the...
First up this week on the show, scientists are learning how to “cryopreserve” tissues—from donor kidneys to coral larvae. Contributing...
As far back as 2015, scientists have been warning against using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to modify germline genomes. Indeed, a perspective...
George Gibson remembers turning to his wife after a 2015 procedure at a Florida clinic that he thought would help...