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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...
UK farm and environment ministry DEFRA published an “Explainer” document on gene editing as a guide for members of the...
Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based policymaking. We...
In computer science, the main outlets for peer-reviewed research are not journals but conferences, where accepted papers are presented in...
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Janine* was raised by a single mother in the San Francisco Bay Area. With...
People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite...
In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that...
The first drafts of the human genome, published in Nature and Science 20 years ago, flung open the doors for...
Since the COVID vaccine was first announced last year, the question of who should be prioritized to receive the vaccine...