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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...
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He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...
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Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...
"'Canadian Criminal Law, Review' vols. 2-10"
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When Alexandra...
Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...
Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...
Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...
The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which...



