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Technologies
BOSTON — Over the past year, I’ve begun hearing rumblings from scientists who secretly think it’s time to stop being...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf.
The...
A STARTUP OUT of Utah, Paterna Biosciences, says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a lab and used the...
Twenty years ago, Sven Bocklandt, PhD, sought to create a hypoallergenic cat. He had the genetic engineering chops to do...
Policies
Fifteen people, including five doctors, have been charged in Maharashtra, India, following an investigation into the exploitation of financially vulnerable ...
KATHMANDU – When Padma was 22, she was diagnosed with cancer. What followed were three brutal cycles of chemotherapy—each necessary...
I was at the annual American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) meeting in Boston when news broke last...
Karina is six months pregnant, but the foetus inside her womb is not her own.
The 22-year-old from eastern Ukraine...
Society
"Para ellos, una familia numerosa no solo es una preferencia personal, sino que es una obligación. Creen que tener tantos...
More than anything else in the world, Erin Millender longed to be a mother. She already had a day care...
There will come a time, in the not-so-distant future, when you decide to stick a computer chip in your brain...
On Dec. 7, 2023, the first night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, 51-year-old Sharon Eisenkot heard the knock on...
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...