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Technologies
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced last week that it is launching a new study of certain types...
On September 20, Nature published a study led by Kathy Niakan at the Francis Crick Institute in London that used...
Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told...
For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest...
Policies
In 2004, Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act, establishing an important piece of national legislation on assisted...
The battle between sports cheats and testers is poised to enter a whole new arena. The World Anti-Doping Agency has...
California has enacted a law that begins to provide a framework for regulating the dozens of state stem cell clinics...
California now has a first-of-its-kind stem cell law that requires clinics pitching non-FDA approved stem cell offerings to be upfront...
Society
And she isn’t the only one.
Last year, a 77-year-old woman traveled to a clinic in Georgia to have stem...
How to avoid the nightmare scenario of artificial intelligence? According to researchers from Elon Musk’s OpenAI, the trick is teaching
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As CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–Cas9) and other gene-editing technologies hasten the feasibility of effective somatic and germline...
You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was...
Perspectives
If you work at such places as Google, Facebook and Apple, your health insurance includes an unusual feature: coverage for...
Tribal leaders are developing a policy for genetic research and data sharing, potentially ending a 15-year moratorium.
When the Navajo...
This essay has been condensed. It can (and should) be read in its entirety in "Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance,...