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Technologies
For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient.
Researchers...
Gene therapy is no longer the future of medicine — it’s reality. Treatments that replace, silence or edit genes are...
In recent months, news came out about several distressing cases that have underscored the risks of gene therapy, which delivers...
Heritable genome editing in human embryos is once again under intense scrutiny after the publication of an opinion piece in...
Policies
In May 2026, a federal judge in Córdoba, Argentina, issued a pre-trial order in a criminal case involving surrogacy arrangements...
Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday refused to intervene in a high-profile custody battle that involved difficult questions surrounding surrogacy and...
China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in...
“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit...
Society
At the beginning of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s blockbuster documentary You Can See Everything, Billy Evans (partner of...
Almost every day I am reminded that we are in the midst of a fertility panic. Whether it’s the Vice...
There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to...
Should human beings remain in control of planet Earth? Or should we be replaced as the dominant species? As absurd...
Perspectives
For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early...
Michelle Lambrechts is a police officer and one-time egg donor in Belgium. She is also the founder of Ik Zit...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently been discussing “artificial general intelligence” that matches or surpasses human capabilities. This is from...
Before Editing Genes: Questions Beyond Science
For technologies such as gene editing, with profound social and clinical impact, we must...