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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...

By Blake Turck, The Washington Post | 11.13.2021

As a little girl, I never dreamed of motherhood. When I got married at 36, I assumed pregnancy would come...

By Sophia Ktori, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.12.2021

A comprehensive study headed by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys has shown that gene editing—specifically gene knockout (KO)—using CRISPR-Cas9 technology...

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By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Sheila Kaplan, The New York Times | 11.12.2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Friday that he would nominate Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former commissioner of the...

By Evan S. Michelson and Adam F. Falk, Issues in Science and Technology | 11.09.2021

Although we can envision many ways that the scientific enterprise might evolve in the future, an often-overlooked component will surely...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.08.2021

In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration put the emerging stem cell cottage industry on notice. At the time...

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By Hayley Smith, The Los Angeles Times | 11.08.2021

When Daphna Cardinale gave birth to her second daughter in September 2019, she and her husband, Alexander, were immediately puzzled...

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By Ellie Houghtaling, The Guardian | 11.07.2021

My eyes flutter open. I’m surrounded by four nurses holding me upside down. They shake me back and forth, urging...

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 11.04.2021

A few months ago, on the morning 23andMe Holding Co. was about to go public, Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki...