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Technologies
In the last six years, scientific groups have organized two multi-day International Summits, both with published summaries, and at least...
When the sequencing of the human genome was announced two decades ago by the Human Genome Project and biotech firm...
CRISPR People is an amalgam: one part historical reconstruction, one part legal inquiry, one part ethical examination, it delves into...
On September 5, 2020, the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, established by the U.S...
Policies
Five years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...
At its 18th plenary meeting (1-4 June 2021), the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe adopted the following...
Gene-editing tools such as the CRISPR-Cas9 system create an opportunity for individuals to have their DNA edited for specific purposes...
New laws in Maryland and Montana are the first in the nation to restrict law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy...
Society
Update 5/28: Orchard Exits Life-Saving Bubble-Baby Research in Wake of Flap Over Patient Access
A gene therapy company backed by...
In response to: Editing Humanity’s Future from the April 29, 2021 issue
In her recent review of four books on...
Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame a wave of hardships early in her life to earn a medical degree and become one of...
When people repeatedly announce who they are in their own words, listen. The core of Nazi ideology is racial darwinism...
Perspectives
It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday when Dana Jones heard an ominous sound, barely audible over the whirring of...
In a ballroom at the Arizona Science Center one afternoon in 2017, more than 70 Phoenix residents—students, teachers, nurses, and...
France Brunel, who is thirty-six, first considered freezing her eggs after ending a two-year relationship, in 2018. She’s not sure...
