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Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/
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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...
Who has the authority to say yes or no to gene-modified babies?
In the mind of He Jiankui, the answer...
Sooner or later it was bound to happen: A rogue scientist in China claims to have edited a gene in...
The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...
Designer babies might be here sooner than anyone reckoned. A Chinese researcher who says he created gene-edited babies crossed what...
HONG KONG — A Chinese scientist’s claim that he used the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the DNA of...
HIV researchers are incensed that the first reported use of gene editing in human embryos was aimed at conferring HIV...
A Chinese scientist's claim that he edited DNA in embryos that developed into twin baby girls has set off a...
Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the...