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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...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.05.2022

Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received...

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By Daniella Silva, NBC News | 12.02.2022

A vote by San Francisco city supervisors in support of allowing police to use robots to kill people in emergency...

He Jiankui
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.29.2022

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison...

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By Kelsey Piper, Vox | 11.28.2022

In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is...

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By Amos Barshad, The Nation | 11.28.2022

In the fall of 2017, I sat in a windowless back room in O’Neill’s bar in the Maspeth neighborhood of...

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By Heather Radke, TIME | 11.26.2022

The first dressing room I remember was at Hudson’s, a Detroit-based department store where middle-class people in my town went...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2022

Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His...

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By Dov Greenbaum and Mark Gerstein, Nature | 11.24.2022

It has been 25 years since the release of GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a credible...