Biotechnology and health

Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution

In 2016, I attended a large meeting of journalists in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was Jennifer Doudna, who just

In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military

A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan for defeating death. His

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Several million people were listening in February when Joe Rogan falsely declared that “party drugs” were an “important factor in

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He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned

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