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National Human Genome Research Institute
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...
Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the...

The Japanese government will pay millions of yen to victims of a now-defunct state sterilisation programme modelled on the laws of ...

A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call...

A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...
We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA...

In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, ...

Tracing genealogies has become immensely popular of late, and numerous companies offer to help you search through historical records or...

For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant — effectively...