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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...
"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon
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Last month...
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based medicine Casgevy for the inherited blood condition beta thalassemia, expanding...
Sperm donation is used to help infertile couples, same-sex couples, and solo women to conceive children where otherwise it would...
Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President,
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A data scientist promoted by...
In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of...
New gene editing tools could become gamechangers for gene therapy, but scientists need to develop new approaches that curtail undesirable...
The future of CRISPR-based therapies received a windfall this week with the launch of the Danaher-IGI Beacon for CRISPR Cures. The...