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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...
Up to three in every 1,000 newborns has hearing loss in one or both ears. While cochlear implants offer remarkable...
In March, at a White House event celebrating Women’s History Month, President Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president,”...
Why is it dangerous when corporate executives, entrepreneurs and investors with enormous wealth and power collectively control the development and...
Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. In the last century, eugenics was...
Photo "Elon Musk Presenting Tesla's Fully Autonomous Future" by Steve Jurvetson on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
What do Silicon...
PAT DUGGINS-- If I were to say, ‘man, have you seen the price of eggs these days?’ You're probably thinking...
Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is...
A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money...