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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...
Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change...
As the technology to create genetically modified babies moves closer to practice, what questions should we ask before such procedures...
To the Editor:
Recently, a team from the United States used CRISPR–Cas9 on viable human embryos to correct a gene...
New York City police officer Wenjian Liu died while on duty in 2014. More than two years later, his daughter...
Recent developments in bioengineering promise the possibility of new diagnostic and treatment strategies, novel industrial processes, and innovative approaches to...
For a soccer-playing, holiday-loving boy on the brink of death from a rare inherited skin disease, doctors have accomplished a...
Excerpts from “The Other Scarlet ‘A’: Abortion’s Relationship to Genetic Testing” from THE GENE MACHINE by Bonnie Rochman.
When the...
They wanted a baby, she wanted to carry it for them—for a fee. It’s a common transaction but illegal in...