Scientists think women in their 50s will routinely begin starting families within the next decade, and 75-year-olds perhaps a decade later, according to a new article about advances in genetic science.
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Scientists think women in their 50s will routinely begin starting families within the next decade, and 75-year-olds perhaps a decade later, according to a new article about advances in genetic science.
read moreThe Washington Post has a fascinating article about the science of in-vitro fertilization and what IVF clinics can and can't do today for prospective parents.
read moreThe Chinese scientist who altered the DNA of twin girls at the one-cell embryo stage unleashed an ethical firestorm. Can such a thing happen in the United States?
read moreFascinating new article in the New York Times Magazine about how gene editing, A.I. and other technologies will transform humanity. The Times sat down with noted experts Siddhartha Mukherjee, George Church, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Mohr and Regina Barzilay.
read moreThe news about the twin girls in China whose DNA was altered to be resistant to HIV raises ethical questions about how we make babies in the short term and our evolutionary trajectory as a species over the longer term.
read moreI found this explanatory article from the New York Times enlightening for anyone interested in tracing their lineage back through the ages through DNA.
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