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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...
Earlier this year, a boy in Sweden celebrated his 10th birthday. Reproductive scientists and doctors marked the occasion too. This...
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In academic medicine, as with Confederate statuary...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a set of principles for the ethical collection, access, use and sharing of...
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Is Elon Musk...
It’s the wee hours of 2nd November 2024 in Cali, Colombia. In a large UN negotiating hall Colombian Environment Minister...
The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) has confirmed that heritable human genome editing (HHGE) remains illegal in South Africa...
The anti-abortion movement is ready for its comeback in 2025.
With the return of Donald Trump to the White...
The conversation around human heritable genome editing (HHGE) in South Africa is marked by controversy and conflicting interpretations of the...