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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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By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...

Two scientists in a lab
By Bethany Brookshire, Science News | 06.09.2020

Biomedical science has historically been a male-dominated world — not just for the scientists, but also for their research subjects...

By Nina de Groot, Journal of Medical Ethics blog | 06.09.2020

A couple of years ago, during my studies, I assisted with a surgical removal of a benign uterine tumor at...

By Rori Rohlfs, Genes to Genomes | 06.08.2020

I was a fourth-year graduate student when I found myself asking a librarian for the archives of the journal The...

By Jay Peters, The Verge | 06.08.2020

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter...

By Annah Fromberg, ABC [Australia] | 06.06.2020

Lottie Frohmader, 17, has always known she was conceived with sperm from a donor.

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Police in Phoenix, ready for protestors
By Osagie Obasogie, The Washington Post | 06.05.2020

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Pandemics are often thought to be unforeseeable acts of God that emerge suddenly to...