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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 research group behind an effort to synthesize a human genome this week released more information about its plans, including a draft...
The UK's first national sperm bank has stopped recruiting donors less than two years after its launch, it has emerged
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Nonprofits and corporations are in a race to fight dengue and Zika.
The fight against dengue and Zika in Latin...
A new wine delivery service called Vinome is promising to deliver “the ultimate personalized wine experience” — customized to your DNA...
Genetics startup 23andMe has let go of a team of scientists and a top executive as it has stopped pursuing
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In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, a.k.a. Gaétan Dugas, a...
In 1894, science fiction writer, journalist and eugenics proponent H.G. Wells, writing in Nature magazine, called on scientists to “popularize”...
“If I had the choice between a transplant of a synthetic trachea and the firing squad I’d choose the last...