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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...
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On the evening of Wednesday, December 2, Timnit Gebru, the co-lead...
The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...
In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply...
While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been...
Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...
On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies...
The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...
There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...



