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In their single-minded venture of “producing” (shengchan, in their own word) the world’s first gene-edited babies, He Jiankui and...
The gene-editing scandal that made headlines in late November, with researcher He Jiankui claiming to have created twin girls...
Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime,...
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the...
Since its invention, CRISPR has let scientists introduce DNA changes at specific locations in a genome. Often these precise changes...
Mumbai—A Malaysian national has been detained at the Mumbai International Airport after it was discovered that he was carrying live...
When the journal Science chose the radical gene-editing technology CRISPR as its 2015 breakthrough of the year, the editorial team...
There’s an “urgent need” to create a transparent global registry that would list all experiments related to human genome editing,...
The first Facebook message arrived when Heather Woock was packing for vacation, in August 2017. It was from a stranger claiming to...
In a newly published article in Nature, a group of prominent scientists and ethicists have called for a moratorium...