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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
A year before Ashley Sheffield left the military, she and her partner decided to try to have a child. The...
Imagine a not-so-distant future, when a 60-year-old man named John Doe goes to the doctor to replace a faulty gene...
"Henrietta Lacks historical marker; Clover, VA," by EMW licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Like many women, I...
Jason Mast is a former English teacher who now focuses on such things as multimillion-dollar gene therapies and whether they...
The FDA's Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., thinks gene editing—specifically base editing—could be a "game changer," but progress has been slow, likely due...
Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients...
On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the ...