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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...
Scientists have created living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos, the most advanced example of these structures yet created...
Tiffany Harper, a 36-year-old attorney in Chicago, suffered in silence for five years.
Expecting to get pregnant as soon as...
A twin birth in China last October raised ominous questions. The baby girls had been genetically edited as embryos, with...
A New York bill to legalize paid surrogacy was the subject of intense debate this year. For supporters, it was...
Two influential leaders in science for the first time publicly condemned a Russian biologist who said he plans to produce...
A Russian scientist says he wants to create more genetically modified babies, flouting international objections that such a step would...
I hope it’s not too late to review Bill McKibben’s important new book Falter, just as I join him...
A new documentary about stem cell therapy is being questioned by some of those who appear in it — prominent...