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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 Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review | 05.13.2022

It’s a Wild West out there for artificial intelligence. AI applications are increasingly used to make important decisions about humans’...

Doctor in white coat writing on a clipboard on a table next to an infant dressed in blue and a stethoscope
By Staff, The Economist | 05.13.2022

Over the years, doctors have described more than 7,000 rare diseases, generally defined as those affecting fewer than one in...

fertilizing an egg in vitro
By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux , The Washington Post | 05.11.2022

After numerous rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), Genevieve Pearson Adair was excited to have 18 fertilized eggs. But it...

test tubes in a lab for sperm donation
By John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal | 05.10.2022

“Our Father,” Netflix.

A horror story presented as too much of a horror movie, “Our Father” features interviews with the...

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By Bente Birkeland, CPR News | 05.10.2022

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

Starting in 2025, Colorado will no longer allow anonymous sperm and egg donations, under...

gavel and open book
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 05.10.2022

What will it mean for me if my state considers my embryo a "person"?

If my state considers an embryo...

a cartoon image showing how CRISPR works
By Michael Eisenstein , Nature | 05.09.2022

Two companies, Beam Therapeutics and Verve Therapeutics, are leading the charge of base editing therapies to the clinic. Last November...

he jiankui
By Samira Kiani, The Globe and Mail | 05.06.2022

photo by the He Lab

In October, 2018, I was invited to a secret meeting in Guangzhou, China. I was...