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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...
A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second...
Late last year, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first genetically modified babies. He deployed a...
As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it...
A congressional proposal that would overturn a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that barred the patenting of human genes and...
A congressional committee voted Tuesday to continue a federal ban on creating genetically modified babies in the United States.
The...
There are new concerns about the world's first genetically modified babies.
It appears that the genetic variation a Chinese scientist...
A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these...
Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...