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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

For the past dozen or so years, stem-cell researchers in California have been the envy of the world. In 2004...

A while back my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, created a new major called science and technology studies, or STS...

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and phone calls with accused sex...

Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about alleged sex trafficker and cartoon villain Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to...

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...