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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...
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...
Policies
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...
In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Louisville (UofL), was starting a...
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
When my colleagues and I asked autistic people and parents of autistic children in Sweden how they feel about genetic...
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...