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He Jiankui speaks in HK
In the Lab

China halts genome editing research that led to claimed birth of CRISPR babies

By Andrew Joseph and Sharon Begley

Dementia
In the Lab

Tests used to determine if someone needs dementia evals are riddled with bias, study finds

By Eric Boodman

In the Lab

Amid uproar, Chinese scientist defends creating gene-edited babies

By Sharon Begley

DNA structure
In the Lab

Sparse public data on CRISPR’d embryos leave many questions unanswered

By Sharon Begley and Elizabeth Cooney

Genetic Frontiers Gene Edited Babies
Exclusive

UC Berkeley researcher, told of CRISPR’d baby study a year ago, warned scientist not to do it

By Rebecca Robbins

An embryo receives a small dose of Cas9 protein
Exclusive

He took a crash course in bioethics. Then he created CRISPR babies

By Sharon Begley

He Jiankui photo illustration
In the Lab

An outsider claimed to make genome-editing history — and the world snapped to attention

By Andrew Joseph, Rebecca Robbins, and Sharon Begley

RICE UNIVERSITY
In the Lab

Rice University opens investigation into researcher who worked on CRISPR’d baby project

By Andrew Joseph

Cas9 Embryos
In the Lab

What we know — and what we don’t — about the claim of world’s first gene-edited babies

By Elizabeth Cooney

Baby foot
In the Lab

Claim of CRISPR’d baby girls stuns genome editing summit

By Sharon Begley

In the Lab

As a genome editing summit opens in Hong Kong, questions abound over China, and why it quietly bowed out

By Sharon Begley

He Jiankui
In the Lab

Purported birth of world’s first gene-edited babies proclaimed on YouTube

By Rebecca Robbins

Genetic Frontiers Gene Edited Babies
In the Lab

Chinese researcher claims birth of first gene-edited babies — twin girls

By Associated Press

Mighty Immersion
Go West

A clinical trial tries to bridge a cultural divide — and ease the anxiety of pediatric patients

By Rebecca Robbins

Human cell
In the Lab

‘A new instruction manual for life’: Single-cell sequencing is opening up new avenues for potential treatments

By Meghana Keshavan

Human sperm
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Scientists are trying to create a contraceptive that stops sperm in its tracks

By Megan Thielking

STAT Brain Signals Final GIF
In the Lab

With brain implants, scientists hope to translate paralyzed patients’ thoughts into speech

By Sharon Begley

MORE Red Blood Cells
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Generic arthritis drug comes up short against inflammation in heart disease

By Elizabeth Cooney

Harvard Medical School
In the Lab

Harvard Medical School receives record $200 million gift for research — and an incubator

By Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

Ancestry website
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Life span has little to do with genes, analysis of large ancestry database shows

By Sharon Begley

Alzheimers Association
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New prize offers $2 million for finding key to Alzheimer’s in past research

By Sharon Begley

SARS chickens
In the Lab

With machine learning, researchers get new clues in the hunt for the source of mysterious viruses

By Andrew Joseph

Appendix - Parkinson’s disease
In the Lab

It started as a ‘weird idea,’ but a new study shows the appendix can initiate Parkinson’s

By Sharon Begley

Biohacking conference
In the Lab

CRISPR is supposed to be easy. Try explaining it to a gaggle of beginner biohackers

By Eric Boodman

echocardiogram
In the Lab

Heart failure study paused over concerns about disputed cell therapy papers

By Elizabeth Cooney

Glass vials
Hospitals

ER patients given ketamine, other powerful drugs in clinical trials without their consent, FDA finds

By Sharon Begley

Robert Moir
In the Lab

How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation

By Sharon Begley

Merriam Webster's Science - large
In the Lab

The march of science and biotech, told through the history of language

By Rebecca Robbins

Beijing Genomics Institute
Business

A Chinese company unveils a powerful new sequencer. But can it compete in the U.S.?

By Rebecca Robbins and Kate Sheridan

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