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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...

In recent years, two new genetic technologies have started a scientific and medical revolution. One, relatively well known, is the...

Recently, a kerfuffle in the world of CRISPR illustrated just how easily money—and our perception of it—can impact science.
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In a new book, University of North Carolina, Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Marks says that racism in science is alive and...

I suppose by this point I shouldn’t be surprised by anything the Trump administration does relating to science. But as...

Two years ago, Cheasanee Huette, a 20-year-old college student in Northern California, decided to find out if she was a...

Leading U.S. science organizations called on the Justice Department to renew an abandoned partnership with independent scientists to help raise...

The ruckus over the CRISPR gene-editing system hides a dark reality: its high cost may make it unaffordable and questions...

For all the promises of genomics ushering in a new era in medicine, with scientists regularly urging people to get...