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Technologies
Over eight years, Ethan and his wife went through nine rounds of IVF in Melbourne.
They travelled to Spain for...
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., the Nobel Laureate best known for co-inventing the CRISPR system that has become the foundation for gene...
Healthy lambs have been born via an experimental form of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) that coaxes highly immature eggs to...
When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long...
Policies
The title of this book is clever, not least because it is borrowed from a very secret society of a...
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
Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...
About 100,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in 2024, according to the most recent U.S. data. But IVF...
Media coverage of recent developments in embryo gene editing might seem to suggest that gene-edited babies are close to becoming...
During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...
Perspectives
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...
Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...
Major news outlets recently reported – based on a bioRxiv preprint – that scientists had edited genes in human embryos...
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...