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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...
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For too long, scientists...
After a months-long fight with Texas Medicaid over coverage of a gene therapy, Afghan refugees now have a chance to...
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating...
Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every...
Neuralink, the company through which entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to revolutionize brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), has implanted a ‘brain-reading’ device into...
Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make...
After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene...
The rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between...