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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...
California is being sued over its DNA collection practices, and the only thing that’s surprising is how long it took...
When the world’s first research on editing the genes of human embryos by Chinese scientists was published in an international...
Three of the most influential scientific organizations in the world are calling for an urgent international effort to prevent scientists...
The year is 2030. Gene therapy to insert the DNA sequence for dystrophin has been approved by regulators and is...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim two weeks ago that he had helped to make the first babies—twin girls—with edited...
It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.
In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell...
How do you stop a mad scientist?
We’ve been doing it in fiction for centuries. Doctor Faustus was carried off...
In response to news of the world’s first babies born in China from gene-edited embryos, Sam Sternberg, a CRISPR/Cas9 researcher...