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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shai Carmi is in the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel. Read the paper: Heritable polygenic editing as a potential ...

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 ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

A major biomedical breakthrough won the 2020 Nobel Prize for CRISPR technology for genome editing, which can potentially save the lives of many people afflicted with genetic diseases. Currently, there ...

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 ...

Genome editing is no longer a futuristic concept — scientists are already rewriting the genetic material of living organisms ...