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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf.
The...
A STARTUP OUT of Utah, Paterna Biosciences, says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a lab and used the...
Twenty years ago, Sven Bocklandt, PhD, sought to create a hypoallergenic cat. He had the genetic engineering chops to do...
Have you ever wondered what it means to have dozens of half-siblings across the world – or to never know...
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf.
The...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Regeneron’s gene therapy for a rare genetic form of deafness, the company...
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Some call it eugenics, an unsettling step toward a world of “designer babies” reserved for...
In February, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a radical rethink of how scientists, physicians and manufacturers develop...
Society
"Para ellos, una familia numerosa no solo es una preferencia personal, sino que es una obligación. Creen que tener tantos...
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J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
Why are babies born young? The most natural phenomenon on earth is actually hard to explain — at least...
Perspectives
Genetics and eugenics co-evolved at the beginning of the twentieth century and remained associated through the 1940s and beyond. Early...
I’m in a cramped examination room at a clinic in Panama City. The lights are dim, and calming classical music...
This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading...
The Trump administration has zeroed in on its next target: ending health care fraud.
President Trump announced Monday the creation...