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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...
Expecting a baby often provokes mixed emotions—wonder and amazement but also concern. Will the child be healthy? Happy...
On the morning of October 19, 1927, the Commonwealth of Virginia sterilized Carrie Buck. Dr. John Bell — whose name...
When is $100 million not $100 million? When it’s a proxy, maybe even something akin to a bet...
It’s no carbon copy. Macaque monkeys in Shanghai have been genetically engineered to display autism-like behaviour. Compared with...
As Italy’s Parliament prepares to debate a civil unions bill, some lawmakers have proposed an amendment punishing couples...
At a 2001 talk in Berlin, transhumanist and Oxford academic Anders Sandberg addressed the crowd. “I am hoping...