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It’s the wee hours of 2nd November 2024 in Cali, Colombia. In a large UN negotiating hall Colombian Environment Minister...
South Africa’s updated health-research ethics guidelines, which now include heritable human genome editing, have sparked concern among scientists. The revisions...
A medicine built around a more precise form of CRISPR gene editing appeared to work as designed in its first...
Policies
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a set of principles for the ethical collection, access, use and sharing of...
The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) has confirmed that heritable human genome editing (HHGE) remains illegal in South Africa...
The anti-abortion movement is ready for its comeback in 2025.
With the return of Donald Trump to the White...
Society
Gig work in childcare, nursing, and transportation; non-invasive prenatal testing; gene editing; and space expeditions can all be attributed to...
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In academic medicine, as with Confederate statuary...
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Is Elon Musk...
The conversation around human heritable genome editing (HHGE) in South Africa is marked by controversy and conflicting interpretations of the...
Perspectives
In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolution: Apology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...
Kendric Cromer, 12, left Children’s National Hospital in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a T-shirt and cap printed with designs...
Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent...