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National Human Genome Research Institute
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...
IN A FUTURE when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier...
England’s first not-for-profit fertility clinic has shut within a year of opening and has been sold to a private provider...
Antonio Vento is 13 years old. He’s a tiny figure in bandages who doesn’t walk and, until recently, couldn’t see...
Biologists who have been obtaining DNA sequences online from companies will soon have a more convenient option: benchtop machines that...
More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has...
The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure...
On the final day of 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a program meant to soothe some of the harm...
Challenges exist around heritable gene editing, its potential medical applications, ethical implications, and the need for regulatory mechanisms in the...