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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...
The death this week of a teenager receiving Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a tragic...
You can only throw so much money at a problem.
This, more or less, is the line being taken by...
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Back in 2019, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui proudly announced to...
Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we...
A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive...
In his first address to the United States after becoming vice-president, JD Vance stood on stage and proclaimed: “I want...
One recent evening in Shenzhen, a group of software engineers gathered in a dimly lit co-working space, furiously typing as...