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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...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim two weeks ago that he had helped to make the first babies—twin girls—with edited...
It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.
In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell...
How do you stop a mad scientist?
We’ve been doing it in fiction for centuries. Doctor Faustus was carried off...
In response to news of the world’s first babies born in China from gene-edited embryos, Sam Sternberg, a CRISPR/Cas9 researcher...
If you want to win a race or stick to a difficult diet, coaches of all kinds will tell you...
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing the government of violating constitutional privacy rights, a trio of civil liberties groups is suing the...
The California stem cell agency, state regulators and lawmakers are taking aim at the more than 100 dubious, unregulated "stem...
Just over a year ago, CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley talked with me about the prospects that the...