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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 Sayyed Muhsin and Alexis Heng Boon Chin , BioNews | 02.12.2024

In 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced he created the world's first genome-edited babies (BioNews 977), which sparked a call...

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By Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.08.2024

An 11-year-old deaf boy is now able to hear in one ear after undergoing a gene therapy treatment at Children’s...

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By Adam Zewe, MIT News | 02.07.2024

A tiny device built by scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology could be used to...

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By Kate Nelson, Atmos | 02.06.2024

Across the globe, Native peoples are leading a movement to assert authority over what was theirs from the very start...

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By Zoe Greenberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.06.2024

Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing...

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By Sienna Rodgers, The House | 02.05.2024

Would you select an embryo according to its chances of higher intelligence? And is that even possible? Sienna Rodgers explores...

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By E.M. Wolkovich, Nature | 02.05.2024

I have just been accused of scientific fraud. Not data fraud — no one accused me of fabricating or misleadingly...

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By Denis Noble, Nature | 02.05.2024

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball Pan Macmillan (2024)

For too long, scientists...