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A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...
Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.
Sounds like science fiction...
The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percent chance that A.I. was going to...
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the...
After declaring bankruptcy in March 2025, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company 23andMe sold the data of more than 15 million...
Imagine telling a child with sickle cell disease that a cure exists—but it’s too expensive for their insurer to cover...
A secret audit of a major fertility clinic revealed that almost all of its donor sperm being provided to patients...
A biracial baby was born to a white couple in Brisbane in an IVF mix-up that Australia's biggest fertility company...
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has apologised for the first time for the forced contraception scandal in which thousands of...
Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans. In recent years, those efforts have begun...