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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the...
HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin...
When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global...
In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...
In 1999, a trio of economists emerged from a conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, squinting without sunglasses...
IVF clinics have been putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive treatment add-ons that have no proven...
“I think I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to...
Millions of amateur genealogists assembling family trees on Ancestry.com probably figure they’re just finding lost relatives and assessing their genetic...