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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
Should CRISPR be used to alter the genes and traits of future children and generations? Dozens of nations have considered this...
He Jiankui’s manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.
Earlier...
In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science...
Across the world, DNA databases that could be used for state-level surveillance are steadily growing.
The most striking case is...
Abstract
Gene-edited babies who might be born in the future should be monitored over the course of their life. These...
Biologists recently revealed a new form of the gene-editing tool known as Crispr that allows researchers to make precise changes...
Around this time last November, Chinese scientist He Jiankui stunned the world when he revealed the birth of the first...
At the start of this decade, the federal government called out consumer DNA testing as a burgeoning scam industry. Little...