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Technologies
Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and...
When desperate parents are looking for medical treatment for their kids, especially their autistic kids, they often do two things...
Screenshot from Genomic Prediction presentation
The first child acknowledged to have been selected as an embryo on the basis of...
It’s 2036, and you have kidney failure. Until recently, this condition meant months or years of gruelling dialysis, while you...
Policies
Almost a year after his election and in the midst of a global pandemic, President Biden has not yet nominated...
The 35 directors of the $12 billion California stem cell agency are scheduled to meet next week for a full...
Photo by Emiliano Vittoriosi on Unsplash
Brendan Ritter, 22, recently discovered he was donor conceived.
When he was told, his...
There’s growing concern about genetic discrimination in New Zealand – and the lack of Government intervention in this fast-moving field. ...
Society
The birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978 provoked a media frenzy. In comparison, a little girl...
Genetic testing for fun and profit is by now part of the consumer landscape. For less than $100, consumers...
"Henrietta Lacks" by Crawford Brian is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
The chief of the World Health Organization on Wednesday...
WASHINGTON — Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, holed up in an Airbnb in...
Perspectives
Abstract
Since 2019, England, France and Germany have started offering NIPT as a publicly funded second-tier test for common chromosomal...
Photo by Kirt Edblom on Flickr
Skip Lowry learned the Indigenous dances of the Yurok people as a child by...
Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific accusing the company...