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National Human Genome Research Institute
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...

As a state legislator, I served on the House committee that drafted Ohio’s current death penalty law. Later, as Ohio...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, for the first time, granted permission to a company to provide limited...

Continuing the patent dispute internationally, China has now given the Charpentier/Doudna side a patent to edit genes in the country.
CRISPR...

Peeling a mango inside her rickety wooden shack, Chhum Long explained how her daughter’s decision to nurture a Western couple’s...

There’s a well-to-do couple thinking about having children. They order a battery of genetic tests to ensure that there’s nothing...

The road to growing organs in pigs is paved with ethical questions
In 2003, a South Korean company called Maria...

Three Stanford scientists have proposed a provocative new way of thinking about genetic variants, and how they affect people’s bodies
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Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been...