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A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

a human hand with tech imbedded in it.
By Susan B. Levin, Slate | 03.22.2022

If, through biotechnology, we could drastically enhance ourselves—such that our ability to absorb and manipulate information was unlimited, we experienced...

3 early human embryos in grayscale
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.21.2022

Photo by ZEISS Microscopy on Flickr

A California company says it can decipher almost all the DNA code of a...

IVF with the cells in the embryo in the shape of a question mark
By Josephine Johnston & Lucas J. Matthews , Nature | 03.21.2022

In fertility medicine, preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has been developed for two purposes: first, to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF)...

He Juankui at the second international summit on human genome editing
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.21.2022

Biophysicist He Jiankui, having served a 3-year sentence for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies, may be released from...

He Jiankui taking questions in 2018
By Echo Xie, South China Morning Post | 03.20.2022

Chinese bioethicists are looking at the issues around caring for the world’s first gene-edited babies, and say more needs to...

A destroyed apartment block
By Lizzie Cernik and Anastasiia Levchenko, Refinery29 | 03.16.2022

Kharkiv, Ukraine: 13 March, 2022
Photo by Fotoreserg

The day before war broke out in Ukraine, 33-year-old Tanya [...

a strand of DNA has one side taken out by someone with an editing tool
By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 03.15.2022

As Intellia recently unveiled its latest promising data around one in a series of potentially game-changing gene therapies, the FDA...

By Press Release, Juvenile Law Center | 03.15.2022

Philadelphia, PA (March 15, 2022) – Today, Juvenile Law Center, the nation’s first public interest law firm for children's rights...