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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...
The top organization in the US responsible for developing genetic testing guidelines is not on board with the US Food...
Doctors are losing their role as the gatekeeper of our health information, for better or worse.
Last week, the US...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has...
Meet the transhumanists who believe that the brain can outlive the body.
"Dead of the world, unite!” Appearing in a...
As with many new fields, synthetic biology—which incorporates disparate disciplines like engineering, computer science, biotechnology, and molecular biology—is hard to...
In 1883, the English statistician and social scientist Francis Galton coined the word “eugenics” (“well-born,” from Greek). The term referred...
Scientists face tough decisions when the latest gene-editing findings don’t match up with the results of other techniques.
It seemed...
Blood is thicker than water, or so the saying goes, reflecting the value we put on biological relationships. But is...