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 ...
Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Some leading organizations in the field of cell and gene therapies recently issued a call for a 10-year ...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who served prison time for creating the world's first gene-edited babies, is planning to repeat ...
Controversial biophysicist He Jiankui was jailed for three years after editing the genomes of three girls ...
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 ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: DrAfter123 via Getty Images Since CRISPR was first conceived as a gene-editing tool in ...
An international commission has been convened by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Society, with the participation of academies of ...
Intellia Therapeutics has patients lined up in the U.S. for a phase 2 trial of a CRISPR-based treatment in hereditary angioedema, but the FDA has thrown down a roadblock over a request for a new ...
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