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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...
"Can we cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime?” The pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder...
Charles Murray, who spoke recently at Middlebury College, has reprised “the best of eugenics” to inform his lectures and writings...
The life insurance business is all about betting on how long you’re likely to live. Now, one company is turning to the...
A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty...
But insurance companies say it's unconstitutional.
On Wednesday night, Canadian parliament bucked the Prime Minister to pass a law that...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ report on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) was published last week, with a launch event in...
Scientists have taken another important step toward creating different types of synthetic life in the laboratory.
A bill that passed its first hurdle yesterday in Congress threatens to take away genetic privacy protections put in place...