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National Human Genome Research Institute
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...

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.
It’s...

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

Executive Summary
The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...

For most people, red blood cells travel smoothly through the body. Round and flexible, they flow through arteries and veins...

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute
When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she...

“We go in for excessive bleeding and come out missing body parts! How does that make sense?”
For more than...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical...

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...