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 ...

South African health authorities have withdrawn a contentious section on heritable human genome editing (HHGE) from the country’s national ethics guidelines. This comes after mounting criticism from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction — it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...

FLORENCE, Italy — With scientists on the verge of being able to manipulate genes before birth, questions about when it is ethical to use available technology and which risks are acceptable when ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital report that they have developed an unbiased, sensitive, and resource-efficient method to identify small, off-target sites that pose a safety risk ...

Waking up this morning to news of the much-deserved Nobel Prize win for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing" confirms the importance of ...