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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 1923, Princeton University Press published “A Study of American Intelligence” by Carl Campbell Brigham, a eugenicist and professor of...
Better cancer treatments, advances in longevity, groundbreaking medicines and vaccines: these are just some of the potential prizes on offer...
Timnit Gebru didn't set out to work in AI. At Stanford, she studied electrical engineering — getting both a bachelor’s...
The heirs of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman who died in the 1950s and whose cells have been reproduced for...
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough...
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This story starts, of all things, with...
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...