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Technologies
In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, ...
Colossal Biosciences, a company mainly known for intending to genetically engineer proxies for several iconic extinct species, announced this week...
A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited...
Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...
Policies
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...
A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...
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Society
By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the...
A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for...
IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...
A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises...
Perspectives
Kendric Cromer, 12, left Children’s National Hospital in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a T-shirt and cap printed with designs...
Turmoil at 23andMe, a company offering popular at-home DNA testing, has upset the industry. Following the resignation of every independent...
The field of clinical gene editing has a bona fide crisis on its hands—a crisis that has to, and can...
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