Enlarge this image In London to address a gene-editing summit last week, Victoria Gray took a break to visit Sir John Soane’s…
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Ethical concerns temper optimism about gene-editing for human diseases
by Rob Stein March 8, 2023Enlarge this image Researchers meeting in London this week concluded that techniques that have made it easier to manipulate DNA still produce…
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Enlarge this image As scientists learn more about the complex way genes combine and work together to create human traits, the idea…
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As Artificial Intelligence Moves Into Medicine, The Human Touch Could Be A Casualty
by Richard Harris April 30, 2019Credit: Chris Nickels for NPR When Kim Hilliard shows up at the clinic at the New Orleans University Medical Center, she’s not…
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Google Searches For Ways To Put Artificial Intelligence To Use In Health Care
by Richard Harris April 22, 2019Enlarge this image Google is looking to artificial intelligence as a way to make a mark in health care. Michael Short/Bloomberg via…
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First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
by Rob Stein April 16, 2019Enlarge this image CRISPR gene-editing technology allows scientists to make highly precise modifications to DNA. The technology is now starting to be…
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World Health Organization Forms Committee To Guide Editing Of Human Genes
by Rob Stein February 14, 2019Enlarge this image Scientists around the world criticized Chinese researcher He Jiankui’s experimental editing of DNA in embryos that became twin girls.…
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Enlarge this image Dieter Egli, a developmental biologist at Columbia University, and Katherine Palmerola examine a newly fertilized egg injected with a…