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Proponents of a proposed law allowing women to be paid to donate their eggs for research say it’s all about...
Call it the “ick” factor.
Stories like the 2018 bombshell out of China, of a scientist manipulating embryonic DNA...
Fabricating part-human-part-nonhuman animals, with features of both, seemed like something out of Greek mythology until the late 20th century....
Seizing on the surging popularity of at-home DNA testing kits, top academic medical institutions are opening clinics that promise to...
Many surprises come with having a baby, including learning your child's sex and discovering all the traits they inherited as...
Californians voted in 2004 to shell out billions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund cutting-edge stem cell treatments.
Proposition...
In mid-July, a bipartisan trio of U.S. Senators—Democrats Dianne Feinstein of California and Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Republican...
The second-most shocking thing He Jiankui told the international genome editing summit in Hong Kong last November — right after...
A Russian scientist recently announced his intention to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to edit and implant human embryos—a revelation...
Last summer, I thought it might be fun to have my DNA analyzed. Two companies, 23andMe and Ancestry.com, had popped...