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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 Megan Molteni, STAT | 02.05.2024

After a months-long fight with Texas Medicaid over coverage of a gene therapy, Afghan refugees now have a chance to...

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By Olivia Olander, Mackenzie Wilkes, Katy O’Donnell, Daniel Payne, and Ruth Reader, Politico | 02.04.2024

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating...

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By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 02.03.2024

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every...

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By Liam Drew, Nature | 02.02.2024

Neuralink, the company through which entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to revolutionize brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), has implanted a ‘brain-reading’ device into...

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By Amber Dance, Discover | 02.02.2024

Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make...

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By Daisy Dumas, The Guardian | 02.01.2024

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene...

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 01.31.2024

The rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between...

mosquito on a leaf
By Greg Allen, NPR | 01.26.2024

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. 

At least 700,000 people...