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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...
Biologists who have been obtaining DNA sequences online from companies will soon have a more convenient option: benchtop machines that...
More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has...
The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure...
On the final day of 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a program meant to soothe some of the harm...
Challenges exist around heritable gene editing, its potential medical applications, ethical implications, and the need for regulatory mechanisms in the...
When Chase Finazzo was just a few years old, his parents noticed Chase was pretty clumsy. But they didn't think...
When most people hear the word “eugenics,” they immediately think of the Nazis. And for good reason: the Nazis force-sterilized...
Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug...