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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
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...
Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...
Since James Watson and Francis Crick first described the structure of the DNA double helix, scientists have debated the potential...
This week, I’ve been working on a big story about a controversial treatment that creates babies with three genetic parents...