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Technologies
An anti-ageing gene therapy not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to be offered by...
The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on...
Every year, patients undergo millions of in vitro fertilization procedures worldwide. Only a minority result in a live birth.
In...
Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of...
Policies
A research program at the National Institutes of Health released the world’s largest database of human genomes and paired them...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing biotech company Regenxbio to reapply for licensing of a gene therapy...
What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to...
Society
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, ...
Birthrates in much of the developed world are at record lows, but there’s one demographic group that’s exploring new frontiers...
In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a...
In the first hours after my daughter was born, three years ago now, I searched her for answers. I examined...
Perspectives
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...
When my colleagues and I asked autistic people and parents of autistic children in Sweden how they feel about genetic...
As Edward Donnell Ivy remembers it, many of the sickle cell episodes he endured in his 20s were akin to headaches...
Imagine wanting to have a child and discovering, at every stage, that the system was not designed with you in...