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Technologies
In 2021, the federal office charged with ensuring that the vast research enterprise bankrolled by the Department of Health and...
Scientists at Columbia University have edited the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy, an achievement that could open...
Faster, Higher, Stronger was the Olympic motto from 1874 until 2001, when “ – Together” was added, to stress...
In a small, preliminary study, an experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels, perhaps permanently, after just one infusion, scientists...
Policies
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education—disability education...
In 2021, the federal office charged with ensuring that the vast research enterprise bankrolled by the Department of Health and...
The Victorian government is introducing legislation it says will make IVF clinics safer and more accountable following high-profile bungles by...
Fifteen people, including five doctors, have been charged in Maharashtra, India, following an investigation into the exploitation of financially vulnerable ...
Society
This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
On a Friday evening in late April, Cathy Tie, the Canadian serial entrepreneur and self-styled “Biotech Barbie”, is centre stage...
Here and there, it’s been a good month for humanity—or “magnificas humanitas,” as Pope Leo XIV calls us poor featherless...
Picture the moment a gene therapy trial’s safety monitor pulls up a patient record — years after the last dose...
Perspectives
A lot of humans are feeling very down on humanity these days. Maybe you’ve met them. Or maybe you’re one...
“Better babies.” “Fitter families.” “Survival of the fittest.” “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” These phrases are not merely historical...
Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
Genetics and eugenics co-evolved at the beginning of the twentieth century and remained associated through the 1940s and beyond. Early...