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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
When Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe began to research coronavirus infections among Black and Hispanic patients, he thought he knew what he...
Just weeks after I interviewed her this September, UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier were jointly...
China has reportedly conducted tests on members of its armed forces in hopes of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,”...
It is a double milestone: new evidence that cures are possible for many people born with sickle cell disease and...
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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...