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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
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...
A Canadian DNA laboratory knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out...
Acompany started by University of Pennsylvania scientist Jim Wilson has received FDA approval to test a form of gene editing...
WHEN THE ALABAMA Supreme Court ruled that fertilized embryos were “extrauterine children,” it did more than imperil the future of...
The first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has fared so well that he was...