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Technologies
Beth Shapiro describes herself as an evolutionary (paleo)biologist, which informs the title and much of the first half of this...
IN NOVEMBER 2019, Matt Hancock, then the United Kingdom’s health secretary, unveiled a lofty ambition: to sequence the genome of...
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David Liu is best known as one of the pioneers of the experimental science of editing...
In another of a long line of studies showing unintended effects of gene editing, the CRISPR-Cas gene editing tool has...
Policies
IVF clinics selling ineffective “add-on” treatments face fines as part of the biggest shake-up of fertility laws in 30 years...
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in London on March 7–9, 2022. The three-day conference...
A few months ago, under the title “Heritable Human Genome Editing: Who Decides Who Decides?” we analyzed the...
The United States does not regulate surrogacy at a federal level, leaving each state to determine its own policies. The...
Society
Robust regulations must be put in place to protect the welfare of farmed animals before genome-editing procedures are approved for...
The last decade has seen genetics and evolution grapple with its history; one composed of figures who laid the foundations...
A common in vitro fertilization procedure offered to patients with the promise of increasing their likelihood of successful pregnancy actually does...
Three years after the ‘CRISPR babies’ burst into the public eye and caused outrage, their fate remains shrouded in secrecy...
Perspectives
If I placed before you an atom with one proton and one electron, you would be forced to admit it...
There is increasing concern among the medical community that the high doses of hormones involved in fertility treatments – whether...
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Staff Writer Phil Barber’s startling account...
