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IN THE Operation Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, 50 wealthy parents were charged with trying to get their children into elite universities through fraudulent means. The story dramatically demonstrated the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their...

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that it could be used to tackle cancer, forms of inherited blindness, various superbug infections and even HIV...

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

small plants
By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 01.24.2023

Gene editing has captured the imagination of academics and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. They claim the technology...

a dna double helix
By Sydney Trent, The Washington Post | 01.24.2023

The world’s largest and best-known group of human geneticists apologized Tuesday for the role some of its early leaders played...

multicolored dna strands
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | 01.24.2023

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) apologized today for the participation of some of its early leaders in the...

two people in lab coats edit a DNA helix
By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 01.24.2023

Suhellen Oliveira Da Silva was six months pregnant when she learned that the child she was carrying had the same...

Japanese flag in front of a corporate building
By Kyodo News, Kyodo News | 01.23.2023

The Japanese government was ordered Monday to pay damages to two people over their forced sterilization under a now-defunct eugenics...

rat that is brown and white
By Brandon Keim, The New York Times | 01.23.2023

Photo by Alexandr Gusev on Unsplash

When Lauren Strohacker received her second Covid-19 vaccine dose in the spring of 2021...

the flag of china
By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang, The New York Times | 01.22.2023

It was a cold and overcast morning in November, but one full of promise for Guo Meiyan and her husband...

a protest sign that says "keep abortion safe and legal"
By Felicia Kornbluh, The Washington Post | 01.20.2023

In June 1973, the Southern Poverty Law Center began publicizing a case it was pursuing in defense of two Black...