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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...
Last week, US scientists edited a human embryo for the first time. That’s just the beginning.
The first step is...
Late last week, reports emerged that scientists in Oregon had used gene-editing technology, known as CRISPR-Cas9, to edit a human...
Today in America, if you are poor, you are also more likely to suffer from poor health. Low socioeconomic status—and...
Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified...
The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing industry has been around for just over a decade. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Coerced sterilizations are a shade away from eugenics.
Last Thursday, Tennessee judge Sam Benningfield was suddenly inundated with accusations of...
Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it
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Hundreds of black men were tricked into volunteering as human guinea pigs. For 40 years, no one stepped in to...