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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...
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...
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IMPORTANCE: Drug companies frequently claim that high prices are needed to recoup spending on research and development. If high...
There has been no shortage of controversies surrounding citation practices in research, and in May 2022, the scientific community...
Earlier this year, I sat on a panel in a university seminar. Toward the end of the session, the subject...