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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...
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Back in the 1980s when I...
Several weeks ago, when news of the first sickle cell disease patient to be cured by gene therapy went viral...
Family values conservatives have been obsessed with heterosexual marriages and babies for decades. They have fought to curtail women’s rights...
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The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from registering children...
In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate...
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...
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“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...
My wife and I decided to have children for an entirely prosaic reason: We wanted to start a family. I’m...