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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
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Introduction
The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield...
In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first...
Two clinics sit adjacent to one another in a new hospital in a medium-sized city in the developed world.
In...
Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...
BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...
Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...
In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...
Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...