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A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These conditions are informed by many genetic variants and environmental factors - so...

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By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 05.28.2025

An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT+ | 05.27.2025

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It began, unlike any other international meeting devoted to discussions of powerful DNA-modifying technologies, with a dance. Four...

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By Donald Earl Collins, Al Jazeera | 05.23.2025

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft founder and...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.23.2025

The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of...

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By Henry Giroux, CounterPunch | 05.23.2025

Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump...

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By Caiwei Chen and Antonio Regalado , MIT Technology Review | 05.23.2025

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback...

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By Staff, Reuters | 05.22.2025

Italy's Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be...

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By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.21.2025

This week a diverse group of researchers, bioethicists, publishers and theologians, are gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to extend and expand...