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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...
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In the name of journalism, I have spit into a lot of test tubes.
I’ve sent samples...
A suspected Indian status scam that told a man he shared genetic ancestry with a dog should serve as a reminder...
On June 7, news reports emerged that Valery Zukin, director of Nadiya Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Ukraine...
Human cells resist gene editing by turning on defenses against cancer, ceasing reproduction and sometimes dying, two teams of scientists...
A DNA test found that I’m 72.3% of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, thanks to ancestors from Ukraine. I expected as much...
Editing cells’ genomes with CRISPR-Cas9 might increase the risk that the altered cells, intended to treat disease, will trigger cancer, two studies...
For nine frustrating years, Lesley and John Brown tried to conceive a child but failed because of her blocked fallopian...
Erin Jackson did not learn that her biological father was a sperm donor until she was 35. Until then, her...