With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...

The Case Western Reserve University Science and Human Rights Coalition will host Andrea Waksmunski, a PhD candidate in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, for a talk titled “Ethics of ...

Shai Carmi is in the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing as a potential ...

A major biomedical breakthrough won the 2020 Nobel Prize for CRISPR technology for genome editing, which can potentially save the lives of many people afflicted with genetic diseases. Currently, there ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Dana Carroll must be considered one of the deans of genome editing. He was instrumental in the development of zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), the genome editing tool that predates CRISPR-Cas by a full ...

Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna is cracking the code of nature to address big issues, using the tiniest parts of us. On Tuesday, UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Cancer Foundation of ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Genome editing is no longer a futuristic concept — scientists are already rewriting the genetic material of living organisms ...

Discover how prime editing is redefining the future of medicine by offering highly precise, safe, and versatile DNA corrections, bringing hope for more effective treatments for genetic diseases while ...