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A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money as many of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich turn their attention to one of the most controversial technologies in medicine.

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A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These conditions are informed by many genetic variants and environmental factors - so...

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Ota Benga
By Julia Jacobs, New York Times | 07.29.2020

Ota Benga at the 1904 World’s Fair

The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo, three other zoos and...

Covid-19 Vaccine
By Antonio Regalado , MIT Technology Review | 07.29.2020

Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout...

Baby peeking
By Andrew Roth, The Guardian | 07.29.2020

As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the...

Sign says Proceed With Caution
By Dina Temple-Raston & Tim Mak, NPR | 07.29.2020

An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to...

University campus in England
By Becca Muir, Prospect | 07.28.2020

Every so often in Britain, eugenics is accused of making a comeback. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to...

Segregated pawns
By Isabel Wilkerson , The Guardian | 07.28.2020

In the winter of 1959, after leading the Montgomery bus boycott that arose from the arrest of Rosa Parks and...

Doctor examining a black patient
By Rod McCullom, Undark | 07.27.2020

THE POWER OF artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient...

Artist's impression of gene therapy
By Jon Hamilton, NPR | 07.27.2020

This is the story of a fatal genetic disease, a tenacious scientist and a family that never lost hope.

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