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Technologies

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Surgeons in Baltimore have transplanted the heart of a genetically altered pig into a...

One in every 18 babies in Australia are now born through IVF, with a record high number of births...

A high-precision successor to CRISPR genome editing has reached a milestone: the technique, called base editing, has made its...

Sure, there have been a few nutjobs out there who think AI will wipe out the human race. But ever...
Policies

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids. The press alert...

Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed...

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Corn is sacred in Mexico. Its roots can be traced to Aztec and...

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...
Society
Any coverage of heritable genome editing since 2018 has to include discussion of the reckless experiments of He Jiankui and...

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids. The press alert...

Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel
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Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi...

Press Release: September 19, 2023
Contact: Jeremy Gruber, JD., jgruber@humanebiotech.org; (415) 483-9410
MASSIVE BIOLAB BOOM IN BERKELEY SPURS RESIDENTS...
Perspectives

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A young researcher studying plant breeding for her PhD at Cornell University has just...

Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy
Italian authorities are bringing in new measures targeting LGBT families and making it harder...

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...
The New York Times and Serial Productions recently released a five-part podcast series, The Retrievals, which has topped podcast...