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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 Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 07.28.2022

When a high school athlete dies from a heart attack or a young woman needs a heart transplant, it is...

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By Megan Molteni, Stat | 07.28.2022

In a little-noticed study published earlier this year, scientists from Oregon Health & Science University reported the birth of three...

A child saved by the treatment discussed
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 07.27.2022

A child saved by the therapy; photo by CIRM

“Jakob is 2 years old. He has a deadly disease. But...

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By Allen G. Breed, Associated Press | 07.25.2022

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center when an...

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By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , The Jerusalem Post | 07.24.2022

Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) warn that while the CRISPR genome-editing method is very effective, it is not always...

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By Meena Venkataramanan, The Washington Post | 07.24.2022

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she says she was raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C. Nine months...

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By Aaron Schaffer, The Washington Post | 07.21.2022

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It’s not just schools, local governments and major private-sector firms like Colonial Pipeline getting...

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By Marius Turda, Ethnic and Racial Studies | 07.20.2022

After 1900, eugenics became an influential scientific theory used by physicians, health experts, religious leaders and politicians across the political...