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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...
It was a report meant to draw a line under Japan’s tragic history with eugenics and forced sterilizations. But even...
Last week, a law about AI and hiring went into effect in New York City, and everyone is up in...
Advances in brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics could improve the quality of life for millions, but they carry risks that even...
A California institute founded by Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna proposed a new model this week for “solving one of the...
Adding, removing or swapping individual base pairs in the genome can make a huge difference to the functioning of a...
Scientists have discovered that the cells of early human embryos are often unable to repair damage to their DNA caused...
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who sparked global outrage in 2018 when he revealed that he had created the first...
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Microbes have been on my mind this week. These tiny organisms are everywhere, and the...