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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...
If you think the government wouldn’t target you as a suspect because of who is in your family, you might...
As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers...
The story began, like so many in biotechnology, with an upbeat press release: Up to 100 patients with a...
How far should scientists be allowed to go in creating things that resemble primitive human brains, hearts, and even human...
It’s not just genetics that influences whether your nose turns out short and wide or tall and narrow.
Whether your...
The San people of southern Africa are among the most-studied indigenous groups in the world. Legions of researchers have investigated...
If you've made the joke recently about how Idiocracy is coming true, ask yourself this: How would you fix it...
District’s schools will include a unit about California and Palo Alto’s role in the eugenics movement
Two Palo Alto middle...