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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 July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to...
In the world of surrogacy and modern family-building options, Michigan has been notorious for having the worst laws in the country...
Prof. Françoise Baylis is a renowned bioethicist and recipient of this year’s Killam Prize in the humanities. Her work on...
On 23 September the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published findings from its review of consumer law compliance in the...
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As governments around the world are lobbied by industry with claims gene editing can deliver rapid...
Genetic tests that predict the efficacy of certain cancer treatments aren’t as effective for people of African or Asian ancestry...
In October of 1990 the U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook what...
In 1904, Nature printed a speech about eugenics by the statistician Francis Galton. One of the foremost scientists of his...