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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...
For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...
A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
Humans are never...
Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Kevin Esvelt is well known for his work on guided evolution technologies—creating systems for ...
A U.K. watchdog balked at the cost-effectiveness of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based sickle cell disease therapy Thursday, recommending against funding...