Smriti Mallapaty
Research into human embryo modeling is rapidly advancing the field but raising just as many ethical concerns
[D]ozens of labs are competing to grow the best likeness of a human embryo. … This high-stakes, high-drama period “is ...
Discount weight loss drugs? India and China vying to make lower-cost versions of blockbuster Wegovy
Companies in India and China are vying to make lower-cost versions that will widen access to such treatments ...
Publicity stunt? Chinese embryo-tinkering scientist supports limitations on gene editing embryos — but refuses to discuss his 2018 CRISPR experiment
He Jiankui refused to answer researchers’ questions about his controversial 2018 experiments at weekend event ...
Ethics and gene editing: How China is deterring another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal
China’s powerful State Council is calling on research institutions to expand and improve their ethics training. The directive, one of ...
Ethics in the age of CRISPR babies: China mulls how to care for gene edited babies as researcher who created them exits jail
Two prominent bioethicists in China are calling on the government to set up a research center dedicated to ensuring the ...
In a global first, injection-free DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine approved — and more in the works
India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the ...
What do infectious disease experts say about the Wuhan lab leak COVID origins hypothesis?
So what do infectious disease researchers and evolutionary biologists say about [arguments for the Wuhan lab leak COVID hypothesis?] Is ...
WHO launches daunting task of tracing COVID’s global path
The search will start in Wuhan — the Chinese city where the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was first identified — and ...
China will test African swine fever vaccine on 10,000–20,000 pigs to ensure it won’t spread virus
Researchers in China have developed an experimental vaccine that can protect pigs for life from a lethal virus that has ...
Australia adopts relaxed CRISPR gene-editing rules, ‘middle ground’ between US, EU extremes
The Australian government will not regulate the use of gene-editing techniques in plants, animals and human cell lines that do ...