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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...
At the turn of the 20th century, U.S. scientists proposed the control of reproduction to advance society based on the...
Mitochondria provide the power for our cells, and when they malfunction, it can be serious. So scientists have developed experimental...
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Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D. , Katie Hasson, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society; and Program Director on...
Scientists first developed gene therapy techniques in the 1990s, exploring ways to treat disease by modifying malfunctioning cells. In 1997...
In a letter sent to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today, a broad collective of...
Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to...
In 2010, Dr. Pamela Munster mailed her saliva to 23andMe, a relatively new DNA testing company, and later opted in...
Law, Africana-studies, and sociology professor Dorothy Roberts describes race as a “political category that has been disguised as a biological...