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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...
A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by...
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in...
Earlier this year, investment bank UBS put out a report heralding artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, saying it was...
After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or...
A year before Ashley Sheffield left the military, she and her partner decided to try to have a child. The...
Imagine a not-so-distant future, when a 60-year-old man named John Doe goes to the doctor to replace a faulty gene...
"Henrietta Lacks historical marker; Clover, VA," by EMW licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Like many women, I...
Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they...