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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...
In his 2021 novel Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro painted a disturbing picture of a world where...
Saying genetics researchers inconsistently and inappropriately use racial and ethnic labels that fail to capture the complex patterns of human...
For most of her life, Victoria Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Mississippi, had experienced excruciating bouts of pain...
It's still far too premature to try to use powerful new technologies to edit genes that can be passed down...
The FBI and the Defense Department were actively involved in research and development of facial recognition software that they hoped...
The next generation of advanced genetic therapies raises profound medical and ethical issues that must be thrashed out to ensure...
Imagine you’re planning to have a baby and are told there’s a method that can select the embryo to increase...
The anti-eugenics activist group, Stop Designer Babies (SDB),(1) is protesting today outside the ‘International Summit’ on human genetic modification (HGM).(2) SDB...