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Technologies
On July 25, 2018, Louise Brown, the world’s first baby born via in-vitro fertilization (IVF), will be celebrating her 40...
After the blockbuster announcement a U.S. team successfully edited human embryos come the tough medical and ethical questions. We’ll talk...
Scientists are trying to manufacture eggs and sperm in the laboratory. Will it end reproduction as we know it?
Let’s...
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo,...
Policies
Forensic science is an embattled field. As DNA testing has overturned hundreds of convictions based on flawed forensic evidence, scientists and...
At a time when civil rights, health services, and climate justice are under attack nationally, California is leading the way...
John Zhang, a New York fertility doctor, wanted to push the boundaries of science and fertility by giving women at...
On Friday, FDA sent him a letter notifying him of his violations
The doctor who created a genetically modified “three-parent...
Society
It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV...
Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, whose mission is “to inspire and foster science learning for all,” is currently planning...
Babies of Technology: Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child, by Mary Ann Mason and Tom Ekman, 240...
With research involving gene editing of embryos now officially underway in the US, and the apparent ability to genetically alter...
Perspectives
On August 2nd, scientists achieved a milestone on the path to human genetic engineering. For the first time in the...
Last month, researchers in Oregon broke new scientific ground when they used CRISPR/Cas-9 to genetically modify human embryos, a first...
In a new book, University of North Carolina, Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Marks says that racism in science is alive and...
