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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...
Tome Biosciences came out of stealth mode on 12 December with a haul of over $200 million to develop the...
When Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for developing in vitro fertilization...
A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict. The level...
Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics...
The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have...
Years ago, I interviewed for a residency position at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Standing before the domed Victorian...
A decade ago, researcher Haruko Obokata caused a sensation when she published two papers in the journal Nature, in which...