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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...

Uyghur man
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.09.2021

Two respected scientific journals have retracted two articles that relied on the DNA samples of Uyghurs in western China after...

Mammoth Biosciences logo
By Emma Betuel, TechCrunch | 09.09.2021

The CRISPR-based biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences is officially a unicorn, the company says. 

The billion-dollar valuation comes on the back...

Los Angeles police
By Sam Levin, The Guardian | 09.08.2021

The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they...

By Priyanka A. Chokhani, The Times of India | 09.02.2021

NEW DELHI: When the pandemic shut down their auto-parts supply business in Maharashtra last year, Sheetal pawned her gold jewellery...

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.02.2021

India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the...

Kazuto Kato
By Gary Humphreys, Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 09.01.2021

Photo from Kazuto Kato’s biography at
University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law

Gary Humphreys talks to Kazuto Kato about the...

Cover of The Code Breaker
By Jag Bhalla, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.01.2021

To say that scientists now understand life’s “code” is a stretch. So, from the very title of Walter Isaacson’s latest...

crispr editing dna
By Ashleen Knutsen, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 09.01.2021

Therapeutic applications of genome editing were envisioned at least as early as the mid-1990s, when the first sequence-specific genome editing...