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A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

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By Sophie Black, The Guardian | 09.04.2022

Mortality has always been on Perry Jones’ mind, much more so than your average 20-something. She’s dealt with a number...

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By Jenny Logan, Mad in America | 09.02.2022

At least one private company has begun offering services to allow parents undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to screen embryos for...

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By Zarya Shaikh, Queer Diagnosis | 09.01.2022

In our first episode of Season 3, Connor McAlister (he/they) contemplates the impact of emerging technologies, including CRISPR, on disabled...

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By Joseph Berger, The New York Times | 09.01.2022

Photo of Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash

A new documentary about the Holocaust opens...

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By Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 08.31.2022

Recently the Genetic Literacy Project has been heavily targeting critics of the herbicide Roundup, now owned by Bayer, with a...

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By Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post | 08.30.2022

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kyra LoPiccolo crouched in front of a small, white foam...

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By Corin Faife, The Verge | 08.29.2022

New Jersey police may have used blood samples taken from babies to investigate crimes, according to public defenders in the...

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By Marian Jones, The Guardian | 08.28.2022

For many women of color, the right to control one’s reproductive destiny has always been about much more than the...