Stem cell IVF could enable same-sex couples and single parents to have genetically related children. It’s time to think ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...

Three U.S. senators issued a resolution July 15 calling for the development of international ethical standards to govern gene editing research. The resolution was spearheaded by Sens. Dianne Feinstein ...

It's these two lines of thinking which combine distopicaly. Ultimately, this tech is going to belong to the rich who will be able to treat things like mortality as something to fix while the rest of ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

Gene editing is rewriting the future of medicine, as seen in the case of a baby named KJ Muldoon who got a fully personalised ...

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 ...

TL;DR: A scientist jailed for three years for illegal gene-altering on babies criticized ethics for hindering scientific progress. The scientist who was sentenced to spend three years in jail for gene ...

It's really hard to draw some arbitrary line in the sand. I do wonder if there was much debate back in the day about man-made antibiotics. It's very much in line with antivax thinking. I feel like ...