U.S. health officials are eliminating special regulations for gene therapy experiments, saying that what was once exotic science is quickly...
Topics
Technologies
The fertility regulator has called for DNA testing websites to warn customers about the risks of uncovering traumatic family secrets...
Labour is calling for a ban on parents-to-be being told the sex of their baby after early blood tests, amid...
In many ways, Matt Fender, a 32-year-old resident of New York City, is the prototypical 23andMe customer: tech-savvy, educated, a...
The promise of a sequenced genome is like a wrapped present, containing exactly what you always wanted but never knew...
Policies
Kylie Charles spent years carefully weighing the pros and cons of genetic testing until her curiosity got the better of...
THE SEARCH for the so-called Golden State Killer — who allegedly raped dozens of women and killed at least 12...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ recent endorsement of human genome editing has drawn fire from experts – including at least...
Society
They tell us race is an invention.
That there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is...
LAST SPRING, Paul Strode gave an unusual survey to his advanced biology students at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado....
The dramatic pace of scientific discoveries in recent decades has not only led to remarkable improvements in domains such as...
From the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the FDA's approval of BiDil as the first race-specific medication to...
Perspectives
In recent years, scientists have begun using the gene editing tool Crispr to experiment in the laboratory with altering embryos...
I was 15 in 1978 when Louise Joy Brown’s birth captured the world’s attention. Still new to monthly menstrual cycles,...
A lawsuit filed by a Toronto woman against a fertility clinic that she claims was responsible for the loss of...
It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair.
For her part, St...