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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...
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...
Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in...
Studies in animals, including one described recently in Wired, show that the gene manipulation technique CRISPR has a habit...
If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...
In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...
JEFF JOHNSON WAS in a hurry. His lunch break was nearing its end, and he needed to catch the 6 train...
Ota Benga at the 1904 World’s Fair
The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo, three other zoos and...
Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout...



