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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...
THE UNITED STATES government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded...
An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It began, unlike any other international meeting devoted to discussions of powerful DNA-modifying technologies, with a dance. Four...
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft founder and...
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of...