On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world’s first genetically engineered children: twins, created...
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(KPIX 5) – A Chinese scientist with Bay Area ties is reportedly missing, just days after unveiling a controversial genetic...
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Before last week, few people had heard the name He Jiankui. But...
Amid the barrage of racist, anti-immigrant, and other attacks launched by President Trump and his administration in recent...
A “profoundly unfortunate,” “ill-considered,” “epic scientific misadventure” that “flout[ed] international ethical norms” and was “largely carried out in secret” with...
In the wild uproar around an experiment in China that claimed to have created twin girls whose genes were altered...