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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...
Members of parliament have voted to legalise controversial mitochondrial donation in the first conscience vote since same-sex marriage in 2017...
Robust regulations must be put in place to protect the welfare of farmed animals before genome-editing procedures are approved for...
If I placed before you an atom with one proton and one electron, you would be forced to admit it...
The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations...
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...