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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 surgeon gasped when he opened up his patient and saw what was in his spine. It was a huge...
When stem cells burst on to the public scene 20 years ago, hand-wringing and excitement in equal measure ensued.
Scientists...
A disgraced stem cell scientist is facing preliminary charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with two patients who died after...
Despite worries about conflict of interest, a National Institutes of Health committee that oversees the use of gene therapy and...
"Welcome to You.” So says the genetic test kit that 23andMe will send to your home. Pay $199, spit in...
Discounted Life is compassionate, critical and somehow as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking. Most of all it is an utterly captivating...
The first proposed test of CRISPR gene-editing technology in human beings is being funded by Internet billionaire Sean Parker, MIT...
Maggie Eastman considers it the worst decision she ever made.
In 2003, beset by $30,000 in tuition debt and imbued...