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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
George Church is one of the world’s most famous pioneers of genetics and biotechnology. He has made colossal contributions to...
In September, 1904, a twenty-year-old Grenadian man named Walter Clement Noel disembarked in New York after an eight-day voyage from...
Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over...
If, through biotechnology, we could drastically enhance ourselves—such that our ability to absorb and manipulate information was unlimited, we experienced...
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A California company says it can decipher almost all the DNA code of a...
In fertility medicine, preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has been developed for two purposes: first, to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
Biophysicist He Jiankui, having served a 3-year sentence for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies, may be released from...