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One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has launched a massive effort to compile genome sequences and health...
Silicon Valley wants to get women pregnant.
From period apps that predict a woman’s most fertile days to...
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Japanese scientists have been given the go-ahead to start modifying fertilized human eggs. However, they will not be creating designer...
“Funny tensions in science.” That’s a phrase from the lips of Eric Lander, president and founding director of...
Nonie Hickle’s hair is coal-dark. Her husband, Vincent, marvels at it. He points to it and says, “No...
For all the hoopla about CRISPR, the revolutionary genome-editing technology has a dirty little secret: it’s a very...
Kuwait is set to become the first country in the world to require all its citizens, visitors and...