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Technologies
Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based biotech company, made headlines this April after falsely claiming to resurrect the extinct dire wolf...
Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...
Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...
Policies
Last week, May 21–23, a broad range of experts gathered in Boston to discuss the future of powerful biotechnologies with...
An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome...
Days after a bombing outside a Southern California fertility clinic, a White House official confirmed Tuesday that the Trump administration...
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In an unprecedented move, a member...
Society
A review of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It began, unlike any other international meeting devoted to discussions of powerful DNA-modifying technologies, with a dance. Four...
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of...
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback...
Perspectives
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this piece are solely my own and do not represent those of my...
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Microsoft founder and...
Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump...