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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 Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...

sam altman at TechCrunch conference
By Hilary Brueck, Business Insider | 03.23.2024

"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...

Cameraman filming movie
By Jennifer Maas, Variety | 03.22.2024

We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...

Kidney surgery operating room
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.21.2024

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...

Gene therapy costs graphic
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.20.2024

There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...

Mexican Flag
By Carey Gillan, UnSpun | 03.18.2024

A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...

Gene wheel
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2024

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...

CRISPR gene editing visual
By Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, The Scientist | 03.15.2024

Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.

Humans are never...