Curing diseases, eradicating species, changing human DNA — these things and more are all possible with the advancement of gene-editing technology. Experts from around the world came to the University ...

LONDON — The Francis Crick Institute is a glimmering chameleon of a building, spanning four acres of downtown London, that took 10 years and cost nearly $850 million to build. The curves of its ...

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 ...

Kevin Esvelt, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, speaks to WSJ health and science reporter Amy Dockser Marcus about how far away we are from DNA editing and the ethical questions along the way.

In the world of biopharmaceutical innovation, 2024 will be remembered as CRISPR’s breakout year. In the spring, five patients with sickle cell disease began treatment with Casgevy, the first ...

China’s powerful State Council is calling on research institutions to expand and improve their ethics training. The directive, one of several detailed in a comprehensive ethics statement, is intended ...