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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...
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Silicon Valley skeptic, a science fiction writer who publicly pissed off Ursula Le Guin and, as...
A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.
You don’t usually see TV shows...
Chrissy Teigen is nothing if not candid—a quality that the model turned chef and television host is both adored and...
At MIT and Brandeis University this week, newly minted Nobel Prize winners stressed the key role that federal funding played...
This essay has been condensed. It can (and should) be read in its entirety in "Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance...
CRISPR, the powerful gene editing technique that enables the precise modification of genes, is revolutionizing medicine and biotechnology. It can...
For several years, scientists have experimented on human embryos with a powerful genome editing tool called CRISPR to see if...