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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
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INTRODUCTION
Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of...
Doctors, data scientists and hospital executives believe artificial intelligence may help solve what until now have been intractable problems. AI...
We’ve been discussing the possibility of genetic enhancement, and the ethics of such technology, for some time now. Many people...
In early 2017, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital called Timothy Yu began work on the most ambitious project of...
The headline on the cover of the San Francisco Business Times told it all.
“Running on Empty: What do you...
The road to gene therapies for genetic disorders has been long — and expensive — but the field could soon...
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Scientists have developed a way to sift through millions of differences in a person’s genetic blueprint to detect those that...