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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...
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.
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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...
One of the nation’s oldest and largest genealogical societies, founded to help Americans trace their family ancestries, apologized Thursday for...
Every animal and plant on Earth has an awesome beauty: the majesty of an oak, the delicate fabric of a...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe this week dived in to deeply rooted discrimination and rights issues, discussing...