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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
Researchers say they have taken a step toward developing a blood test that would detect eight common cancers, possibly even...
In 1959, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered a famously controversial lecture at Cambridge University. He described...
“I want to democratize science,” says biohacker extraordinaire Josiah Zayner.
This is certainly a worthy-sounding sentiment. And it is central...
When we talk about gene editing technology, we often talk about—but almost never deeply consider—the concept of designer babies. Consider...
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West have announced that their third child, a daughter, was born on Monday via surrogate...
In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an...
The year was 2004, and great medical breakthroughs were supposedly right around the corner.
In TV advertisements, celebrities Michael J...