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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a...
The U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the Royal Society of the...
WHEN CHINESE scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live...
As morbid as it sounds, life insurance companies want to know how long you’ll be around, and figuring that out...
In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk...
While it’s fun to submit DNA to a testing service to learn you might be 10 percent Nigerian, Norwegian, or...
In late November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui ignited a media firestorm with the birth announcement of “healthy” twin...
A panel of government-appointed experts in Germany agreed unanimously that the human germline — DNA that is inherited by children...