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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...
Imagine you’re planning to have a baby and are told there’s a method that can select the embryo to increase...
The anti-eugenics activist group, Stop Designer Babies (SDB),(1) is protesting today outside the ‘International Summit’ on human genetic modification (HGM).(2) SDB...
Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...
Since James Watson and Francis Crick first described the structure of the DNA double helix, scientists have debated the potential...
This week, I’ve been working on a big story about a controversial treatment that creates babies with three genetic parents...
When the first baby born using a controversial procedure that meant he had three genetic parents was born back in...
Five years ago, Jason Diaz underwent drastic surgery to combat a rare type of cancer. He had his stomach removed...
Paul Berg, a Nobel laureate biochemist whose breakthrough in splicing DNA molecules helped place the foundations for the biotech industry...