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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...
On December 10, 2020, Elizabeth Ann made history just by being born. She isn’t a British royal, an American married...
Two pharmaceutical companies have halted clinical trials of gene-targeting therapies for Huntington’s disease (HD), following the drugs’ disappointing performance.
Researchers...
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On April 21, 2021, a federal judge entered a sentence of jail time and...
The Nobel prize in chemistry awarded last year to the biochemists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for the genetic modification...
A new gene-editing tool has enabled Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering scientists to accomplish a feat that wouldn't...
Most women undergoing IVF treatment in Australia are paying for one or more add-on treatments, despite limited proof of their...
Six patients with dementia traveled to Mexico last year to be injected with a gene therapy not authorized for use...