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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 Gaby Del Valle, Politico | 04.28.2024

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The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will...

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By Lenny Bernstein and Yeganeh Torbati, The Washington Post | 04.28.2024

It was one of the worst accidents in the history of reproductive medicine.

A storage tank at a San Francisco...

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By Andrew Anthony, The Guardian | 04.28.2024

Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford...

Image shows two pigs behind a wire fence in a grassy area. One pig is bent down facing away while the other pig is facing directly at the camera.
By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.24.2024

Lisa Pisano was lying in a hospital bed at NYU Langone Health, hooked up to beeping monitors and an array...

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By Cade Metz, The New York Times | 04.22.2024

Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters...

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By Carrie Arnold, Nature Biotechnology | 04.17.2024

Tome Biosciences came out of stealth mode on 12 December with a haul of over $200 million to develop the...

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By Osagie K. Obasogie, L.A. Review of Books | 04.17.2024

 

When Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for developing in vitro fertilization...

DNA dissolving
By Yelena Biberman and Jonathan D. Moreno, Bioethics Forum | 04.16.2024

A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict. The level...

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