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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an...
Medicine has entered a new era in which scientists have the tools to change human genetics directly, creating the potential...
It was a cool morning at the beef teaching unit in Gainesville, Florida, and cow number #307 was bucking in...
Results from a small clinical study suggest that EDIT-101, a CRISPR-based gene editing therapy for an inherited form of Leber’s...
On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with...
A sperm donor fathers more than 150 children. A cryobank misleads prospective parents about a donor’s stellar credentials and...
“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”
Her voice came heavy through my headphones as...
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Boxes of old family photos, letters, and other memorabilia have been sitting in my...