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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 discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes...
In July 2019, medical staff in Nashville dosed the first U.S. patient in the exa-cel therapy trial, sponsored by Vertex...
With the business in a tailspin, 23andMe’s CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on your...
In 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced he created the world's first genome-edited babies (BioNews 977), which sparked a call...
An 11-year-old deaf boy is now able to hear in one ear after undergoing a gene therapy treatment at Children’s...
A tiny device built by scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology could be used to...
Across the globe, Native peoples are leading a movement to assert authority over what was theirs from the very start...
Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing...