Some concerns have been voiced over the way in which a clinic last year created the first three-parent baby born...
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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
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...
Recently, two eminent groups of scientists and health and medical experts made a startling statement: Under very limited circumstances, it...
Jim Durgeloh, 59, was desperate to avoid surgery. After a career as a construction contractor and hours of leisure time...
As of this year, the creation of genetically engineered and enhanced future human beings is no longer a scientific hypothetical...
Why did you choose to examine African-Americans’ approach to genetic ancestry in The Social Life of DNA?
Given the Tuskegee...