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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...
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In April, Ezibon Khamis was dispatched...
Scientists have created fertile mice from male genetic material alone, a breakthrough that could one day open the door to...
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Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture...
In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call...
A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe...
A new 13-year study published in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy—a technique...
23andMe's two-step sale to a nonprofit led by former CEO Anne Wojcicki is nothing more than a dance around California's...
A second patient has died following treatment with Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys, raising more doubts about the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)...