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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...
When Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, there was no black-tie ceremony in Sweden. Because...
It’s been two decades since the Human Genome Project first unveiled a rough draft of our genetic instruction book. The...
Every time one of America’s genetic-testing companies advertises a deal on DNA kits, Michael (not his real name) braces himself...
There are two major lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Alice Wong, founder and director of...
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A huge wave of anti-transgender legislation is coursing through statehouses in the early months...
It’s a familiar story: the virile sperm fights its path through the hostile uterus to the passive female egg. After...
In early January 2020, Feng Zhang, a gene-editing researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, started getting emails...
A century’s worth of change is about to be squeezed into a single decade. By 2030, entire industries are likely...



