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Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
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...

Elon Musk has been warning about population decline and smaller families for years. In his 2015 biography, he’s quoted as...

Newborn screening programs are a vital public health measure implemented in the U.S. and across the world, with about one...

The couple had dreams of a big family. They would have five children, who would have their father’s mop of...

For several years, parents of autistic children have paid between $10,000 and $15,000 to have their children undergo unproven stem...

The Cut + Paste exhibition is at The Crick
IF you had the chance to choose elements of yourself to...

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Introduction
The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield...

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first...

Two clinics sit adjacent to one another in a new hospital in a medium-sized city in the developed world.
In...