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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...
"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...
“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...
For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...
A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
Humans are never...
Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Kevin Esvelt is well known for his work on guided evolution technologies—creating systems for ...