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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...
In which we meet the pioneers of one of the most exciting — and controversial — fields of biomedical research: ...
When Victoria Gray was still a baby, she started howling so inconsolably during a bath that she was rushed to...
Open letter to UK's FSA is published
A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society...
In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a...
The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.
The one-time therapy, which...
In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can...
In recent years, Singapore has increasingly leveraged new reproductive technologies to overcome the country's rapidly aging demographics and dismal fertility...
A technique for precisely rewriting the genetic code directly in the body has slashed “bad” cholesterol levels—possibly for life—in three...