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Technologies
Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of...
Our genomes are full of mutations that have the potential to damage our health or even kill us. Yet most...
The European Parliament has voted for a wide-reaching deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). There was no majority for amendments...
On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released...
Policies
What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to...
In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Louisville (UofL), was starting a...
The European Parliament has voted for a wide-reaching deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). There was no majority for amendments...
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education—disability education...
Society
In the first hours after my daughter was born, three years ago now, I searched her for answers. I examined...
The kit arrives. It isn't big.
You get it out of the mailbox and bring it to your counter. It's...
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how...
On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released...
Perspectives
Imagine wanting to have a child and discovering, at every stage, that the system was not designed with you in...
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...