Topics
Technologies
Sangamo Therapeutics will use zinc finger nucleases to introduce the gene for a missing clotting factor into the livers of
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It has been about three months since Terrell Gills’s release from jail, and there are still sleepless nights and days...
A HALF-INCH-LONG MOTH that devours kale, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts may not inspire the same fear as a Zika-carrying mosquito, but...
One of every three genetic tests examined by a team of researchers at the San Diego Naval Medical Center shouldn’t...
Policies
He made the emotional plea to his colleagues: Pass this bill.
“It might give somebody like my wife a chance...
Pat Reilly had good reason to worry about Alzheimer’s disease: Her mother had it, and she saw firsthand the havoc...
BIOLOGY HAS EMERGED as one of the most important technology platforms of the 21st century. With the arrival of the gene-editing...
More than a decade ago, Californians made a $3 billion wager on the healing potential of stem cell research.
Today,...
Society
A report from the National Academies says scientists alone can't make the call—they must engage with the broader public
Meaningful...
DNA is what makes us who we are. In humans, our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent similar to the person...
Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in...
A year and a half ago, few health insurers would cover a noninvasive prenatal test — which draws blood from...
Perspectives
China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely...
TUSKEGEE, Ala. — Decades later, it’s still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men...
The message wasn’t subtle in one of the first advertisements for the birth control pill. Greek mythological figure Andromeda is...
The Australian Academy of Sciences has joined a growing number of groups calling for a national discussion on a range...