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Chinese Scientist Apologises for Leak of Baby Gene-Editing Results

Reuters 28/11/2018

He Jiankui, who has claimed to have helped make...

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Chinese Scientist Claims to Have Helped Make World’s First Gene-Edited Babies

The Wire Staff 26/11/2018

He Jiankui, of the Southern University of Science and...

A closeup view of GR FLORA 64 60 102. Credit: Haresh Lalvani

Could All Shapes Have Their Origin in a Universal Genetic Code of Form?

S. Ananthanarayanan 17/10/2018

The renowned architect Haresh Lalvani is thinking of ways...

pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, pre-implantation genetic screening, thalassemia, in-vitro fertilisation, IVF, embryos, mosaicism, uterus, genetic defects, chromosomal defects, next gen sequencing, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, assisted reproductive therapy, aneuploidy, sex determination,

Explained: US Court Settles Bitter Gene Editing Patent Case, Confusion Lingers

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/09/2018

The Broad Institute has retained its patent on using...

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CRISPR Gets Golden Makeover That Could Improve Gene-Editing Tech

Lakshmi Supriya 13/10/2017

While the new version of the tech has room...

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The Future of Genetic Enhancement is in China, Not in the West

G. Owen Schaefer 04/08/2016

If the critics are correct that human enhancement is...

The UK's permission for editing human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute doesn't really mean designer babies. Credit: Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Editing Embryos – Six Steps to an Informed Opinion

Nandita Jayaraj 12/02/2016

For the first time, a government has approved research...