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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...
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How does the American far right view genetics and genetic technologies?
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An understandable ethics outcry greeted the June announcement of a software platform that offers aspiring parents “genetic optimization” of their...
In this episode of Disability Deep Dive, hosts Keith and Jodi explore the complex interplay between disability science, technology...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has made a big push to get agencies like...
A brief skirmish between Sarepta Therapeutics and the FDA has ended before escalating into a full-on regulatory clash, as the...
One month ago, a 51-year-old man treated in a clinical trial with an experimental gene therapy became dangerously sick. The...
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that...
Nearly 2 million people protected their privacy by deleting their DNA from 23andMe after it declared bankruptcy in March. Now...