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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...
Advances in genome editing technologies allow scientists to add, remove, or alter genetic material at particular locations in the human genome...
Imagine a world in which parents have the option to go to a geneticist to discuss the ‘genetic fix’ choices...
In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, members...
"tasmanian tiger" by nicolas.boullosa is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
The last official sighting of a Tasmanian...
A recently introduced patent bill would authorize patents on abstract ideas just for including computer jargon, and would even legalize...
After 10 years of effort, medical researchers at Columbia University have developed a very fast and cheap way to detect...
The FDA on Wednesday approved the first gene therapy for a chronic condition — bluebird bio’s new Zynteglo (beti-cel) as...
When Ollie’s mother, Katie, was nine weeks pregnant, her obstetrician-gynecologist’s office in Boulder, Colorado, offered her a special $100 price...