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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...
Would you select an embryo according to its chances of higher intelligence? And is that even possible? Sienna Rodgers explores...
I have just been accused of scientific fraud. Not data fraud — no one accused me of fabricating or misleadingly...
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball Pan Macmillan (2024)
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...