Eben Kirksey
Viewpoint: Human gene editing research prioritizes speed, profit, and breakthroughs. Is that in sync with fundamental ethical values?
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who announced in 2018 that he had edited the DNA of embryos to make them ...
CRISPR cracks open the door to a future of human mutants. Worried?
Surreal artwork in the hotel lobby—a gorilla peeking out of a peeled orange, smoking a cigarette; an astronaut riding a ...
Eugenics? As embryo screening opens-wide the door to manipulate human traits, notions of normalcy and deviancy, fitness and disability, are changing
With the dramatic expansion of new blood tests, many more pregnant mothers are testing their fetuses for 'defects' such as ...
How AIDS transformed genetic engineering
For two decades, [Matt] Sharp had been living with HIV. He’d watched the height of the aids crisis claim dozens of his ...
