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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...
IVF clinics selling ineffective “add-on” treatments face fines as part of the biggest shake-up of fertility laws in 30 years...
A common in vitro fertilization procedure offered to patients with the promise of increasing their likelihood of successful pregnancy actually does...
IN NOVEMBER 2019, Matt Hancock, then the United Kingdom’s health secretary, unveiled a lofty ambition: to sequence the genome of...
Three years after the ‘CRISPR babies’ burst into the public eye and caused outrage, their fate remains shrouded in secrecy...
There is increasing concern among the medical community that the high doses of hormones involved in fertility treatments – whether...
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David Liu is best known as one of the pioneers of the experimental science of editing...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for the most common cause of dwarfism Friday, a drug that...
In another of a long line of studies showing unintended effects of gene editing, the CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool has...