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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...
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world by creating the first children with edited genomes, says research must...
The multimillion-dollar costs of gene therapies -- the type that the state of California is helping to finance -- received...
The scientist at the heart of the scandal involving the world’s first gene-edited babies has said he moved “too quickly”...
Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first...
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In June 2000, Bill Clinton, the then US president, stood smilingly next...
It’s easy to think of eugenics as something that happened far away from us, with ideals alien to our character...
On January 23, Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), Julia Letlow (R-La.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) introduced the Protecting...
In April of 2021, Emilie Wigdor finished up a paper titled “The female protective effect against autism spectrum disorder” and...



