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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...

Africa on a globe
By ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer et al., Nature | 03.15.2022

Image by James Wiseman on Unsplash

Sleeper fish (Bostrychus africanus) are a staple food in West Africa. Harvesting...

Françoise Baylis
By Andrew Riley and Caitlyn MacDonald, Dal News | 03.15.2022

Françoise Baylis, photo by XhenetaM,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two of Dalhousie’s leading researchers are being honoured...

lab mouse sitting in a gloved hand
By Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine | 03.14.2022

A team of researchers have successfully raised a mouse into adulthood that was produced from a single unfertilized egg. 

This...

Buildings in Kyiv Ukraine
By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova, The New York Times | 03.12.2022

CC0 / Public Domain License. Image Info

Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim...

close of of $100 bills
By Paul Schloesser, Endpoints News | 03.11.2022

Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash

Four years after the FDA admonished stem cell clinic StemGenex for making dubious claims...

Illustration of Christmas Island Rat
By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.09.2022

"n364_w1150" by BioDivLibrary is marked with CC PDM 1.0.

An extinct rat that once lived on an...

plastic model of a human heart
By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press | 03.09.2022

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two...

Patient's brain scan
By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.09.2022

Brain scan by Philippi et al via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Every two weeks, a nurse visits 43-year-old...