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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...

Crispr
By Hannah Thomasy, The Scientist | 03.15.2024

Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Kevin Esvelt is well known for his work on guided evolution technologies—creating systems for ...

Crispr
By Nick Paul Taylor, BioSpace | 03.14.2024

A U.K. watchdog balked at the cost-effectiveness of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based sickle cell disease therapy Thursday, recommending against funding...

Sickle Cell
By Nada Hassanein, New Jersey Monitor | 03.14.2024

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year approved two breakthrough gene therapies for sickle cell disease patients. Now...

sickle cell fertility on scales
By Gerry Smith, Bloomberg | 03.12.2024

When Celenise Mahmood first learned about two new gene therapies that could cure sickle cell disease, she felt a wave...

Farm
By Matt Novak, Gizmodo | 03.12.2024

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers...

egg freezing
By Anna Collinson, Maryam Ahmed and Bella McShane, BBC | 03.12.2024

Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...

Artificial Intelligence graphic
By Billy Perrigo, TIME | 03.11.2024

The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which...

Chickens
By Carol Cardona and Michelle Kromm, Scientific American | 03.11.2024

Recently, a group of scientists announced a breakthrough approach to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu or avian flu)...