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Technologies

Crispr

Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Kevin Esvelt is well known for his work on guided evolution technologies—creating systems for ...

Note: This article was originally published in February 2024 in issue 268 of the German-language journal Der Gen-ethische Informationsdienst (GID)...

Farm

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers...

Chickens

Recently, a group of scientists announced a breakthrough approach to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu or avian flu)...

Policies

IVF Clinic

Vitaly Kushnir’s fertility clinic offers to screen an embryo to predict a baby’s sex, but the service can lead to...

IVF Lab

The Alabama State Legislature passed a bill Wednesday night granting civil and criminal immunity for in vitro fertilization service providers...

IVF on microscopic level

This decision will affect the millions of people who become pregnant each year, their families, and their health care providers...

Map of Ukraine

In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology...

Society

Crispr

A U.K. watchdog balked at the cost-effectiveness of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based sickle cell disease therapy Thursday, recommending against funding...

Sickle Cell

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year approved two breakthrough gene therapies for sickle cell disease patients. Now...

sickle cell fertility on scales

When Celenise Mahmood first learned about two new gene therapies that could cure sickle cell disease, she felt a wave...

Human Genome

A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major trove...

Perspectives

egg freezing

Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...

DATA
Genes

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

IVF Petrie Dish

Imagine having 15 miscarriages.

Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and keep trying to have children...