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There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been in vogue for quite a few decades now. While IVF has been hailed as a significant scientific advancement, with many advantages, here are some limitations which bear keeping in mind...

A single cell.
A global business worth billions.
A trade that can bring rewards—or human costs that cannot be measured...

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

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By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times | 07.02.2024

Photo by Claire Anderson on Unsplash

Second only to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on when presidents are immune from...

depiction of IVF process
By Sonia Suter and Naomi Cahn, PET | 07.01.2024

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Since the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade (see BioNews ...

X-ray image of a pair of lungs
By Katie LaGrone, WPTV | 06.28.2024

Image by National Cancer Institute from Unsplash

TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa jury recently found the now-defunct Lung Institute in...

Image of a model human brain
By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 06.27.2024

Image by Robina Weermeijer from Unsplash

A molecular-editing tool that’s small enough to be delivered to the brain shuts down...

blue strand of dna dissolving into blue background
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.27.2024

Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...

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By Shivam Jadaun and Shivani, JURISTnews | 06.27.2024

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In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still...

Partial image from Bridge Recombination Mechanism video
By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.26.2024

Partial screenshot from The Bridge Recombination Mechanism
video by The Arc Institute on YouTube (CC)

Buried in a family...

Green, blue, and yellow image of a stem cell
By David Jensen [cites CGS' Pete Shanks], The California Stem Cell Report | 06.24.2024

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The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...