Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.” ...
He Jiankui’s name became synonymous with scientific transgression when his secret experiment produced the world’s first ...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who served prison time for creating the world's first gene-edited babies, is planning to repeat ...
The birth of a genetically engineered baby could be fast approaching, with a Silicon Valley startup as the mother and a group of tech billionaires as the proud godparents. The startup company is ...
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 ...
Around 2018–19, there was not a bigger science and ethical story than the debate over heritable human genome editing (HHGE) and the scandal over the “CRISPR babies.” The scientist, He Jiankui, who ...
The secrets of our genes can be mined or misused. Our challenge is to sift through the data, utilize the tools, knowledge, and wisdom of what we can handle, and resist the temptation of tangling with ...
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 ...