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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...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It began, unlike any other international meeting devoted to discussions of powerful DNA-modifying technologies, with a dance. Four...
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft founder and...
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of...
Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump...
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback...
Italy's Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be...