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During an important Pfizer medical trial a young boy suffered a fatal sudden cardiac arrest after receiving experimental gene therapy.
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Young Patient Dies After Receiving Pfizer Gene Therapy

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA.
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Startup Uses AI to Edit Human DNA

By Victor Tangermann

A former Thiel fellow has launched a startup allowing parents to pick which embryos they want to incubate based on which has the best genes.
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Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a human gene-editing drug trial aimed at reducing heart disease due to serious side effects.
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Gene Editing Experiment Halted as Patient Gets Weird Side Effects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roughly a year and a half after being released from prison, Chinese scientist He Jiankui has resumed research on human embryo gene editing.
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Scientist Who Gene-Edited Human Babies Back in the Lab Again After Prison Release

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've been able to literally cut out the "bad" bits of DNA from infected cells to eliminate HIV using CRISPR gene editing.
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Scientists Manage to Cut HIV Out of Individual Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a gene-edited cow that produces human insulin in her milk in Brazil.
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Cow Hacked With Human DNA Produces Milk Containing High Levels of Human Insulin

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese startup PorMedTec claims to have cloned three piglets to have their organs be viable for transplantation to humans.
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Startup Clones Three Piglets Gene-Hacked to Have Organs Transplanted Into Humans

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.
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23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe could soon run out of money after burning through over a billion dollars in cash.
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23andMe Has Lost Billions, Almost Worthless Now

By Victor Tangermann

The holiday season means presents galore  — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.
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DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by an ex-patient of non-consensually inseminating her with his own sperm.
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Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
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Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Interbreeding with the Denisovans left us with a gene that helped us with the climate, but left us vulnerable to mental disorders.
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Scientists Say We Bred With an Extinct Human Species and It Left a Grim Change in Our Brains

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that they say can cure a type of deafness.
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Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.
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Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe

By Noor Al-Sibai

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.
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DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.
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Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure.
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Doctors Thrilled as Pig Kidney Functions in Human Patient for Two Full Months

By Victor Tangermann

The New Yorker documented the life-changing ambitions of He Jiankui, the scientist who gene edited human babies, leading to infamy and prison.
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Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Had Plan to Transform Humankind

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.
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The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has taken an important step toward a future where we can regenerate human teeth with the use of stem cells.
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Scientists Just Made Intriguing Progress Toward Regenerating Human Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists took a bunch of alcoholic macaque monkeys and then successfully weaned them off alcohol after a round of gene therapy.
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New Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Booze Consumption in Alcoholic Monkeys

By Sharon Adarlo

By activating a defective gene in mice, the researchers were able to restore their hearing to almost normal levels.
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Scientists Successfully Reverse Hearing Loss in Mice

By Frank Landymore

Henrietta Lacks' family has won a settlement from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech firm that made billions by selling Lacks' cells.
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Henrietta Lacks’ Family Is Finally Getting Paid by the Biotech Company That Stole Her Cells

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.
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Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FDA just gave the OK for a new genetically-modified pig sausage to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked sausages for all!
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FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
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Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.
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Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

By Victor Tangermann

It's finally happened — scientists have brought about the birth of baby mammals using stem cells from two males to create lab-made eggs. 
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Scientists Create Litter of Mice From Two Male Fathers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018. Now, he speaks out about some of his regrets.
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Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Says Mistakes Were Made

By Victor Tangermann

San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio has claimed that its technology was able to extend the lives of old mice.
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Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan

By Victor Tangermann

Billions of male chicks are culled each year, so scientists have approached this grisly reality by limiting the amount of males born via gene-editing.
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Scientists Gene Edit Hens To Lay Eggs That Can Stop Developing Into Male Embryos

By Frank Landymore

After examining blood samples from 14 NASA astronauts, researchers found that samples from all 14 astronauts showed mutations in their DNA.
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Scientists Found Genetic Mutations in Every Astronaut Blood Sample They Studied

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, there may be ways to improve or even reverse disabilities associated with Down syndrome with the use of a new hormone treatment.
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Scientists Say New Treatment May Improve Cognition for People With Down Syndrome

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists in the UK have created "synthetic" mouse embryos without egg or sperm cells. It's a breakthrough in the field of genetic engineering.
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Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryos Without Sperm or Eggs

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker's yeast for the first time.
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Mad Scientists Create Human Bread Yeast in a Lab

By Victor Tangermann

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.
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House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol.
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Doctors Gene-Edit Patient’s Liver to Make Less Cholesterol

By Victor Tangermann

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.
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Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

By Victor Tangermann

The rise of  “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.
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Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a new gene therapy technique, researchers at the University of California San Diego reduced neuropathic pain in mice that were experiencing spinal cord or other nerve injuries — and with no side effects.
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Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago say research shows binge drinking effects in youth can be reversed with CRISPR gene editing.
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Scientist Say They Might Be Able to Reverse Binge Drinking With Gene Editing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An international team of researchers claim to have slowed the signs of aging in mice by resetting their cells to younger states.
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Scientists “Elated” by Treatment They Say Made Mice Genetically Younger

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.
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Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

By Tony Ho Tran

In her new book "The Genesis Machine," futurist Amy Webb warns that terrorists could create viruses in a lab and use them for nefarious purposes.
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Scientists Warn That Terrorists Could Release a Horrifying Virus

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the gene-hacked pig heart beating during the historic operation earlier this month, surgeons used a drug cocktail that includes cocaine.
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The Pig-Human Heart Transplant’s Secret Weapon? Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's predominant futurists believes that we're not too far off from breaking the genetic mold.
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Expert Says Children Will Soon Have More than Two Biological Parents

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time ever, a team of US surgeons have transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a living human — a huge milestone.
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Doctors Transplant Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Into Living Human Patient

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong has launched a new "epigenetic reprogramming" company with the goal of extending the human health span.
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Billionaire Launches Startup to Reprogram Human Gene Expression

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent tweet, Lil Nas X would love to go all the way — and perform sexual acts with himself. But will science ever make his dream come true?
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Lil Nas X Says He Wants to Clone Himself and Have Sex With the Copy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have made a surprising discovery that could redefine how we understand aging, potentially paving new ways to prevent balding.
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New Genetic Discovery Could Finally Explain Balding

By Victor Tangermann

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.
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WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

A international team of researchers were able to show that castration of male sheep delays the aging of DNA.The same could apply to humans as well.
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Wanna Delay Aging? Get Castrated, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A man was charged with rape after uploading his genetic code to a genaelogy site, giving police the DNA match they needed for a case from 2007.
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Man Charged With Rape After Uploading His DNA to Ancestry Site

By Dan Robitzski

The International Society for Stem Cell Research just loosened up decades-old restrictions on how long scientists can keep lab-grown embryos alive.
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New Regulations Let Scientists Keep Lab-Grown Human Embryos Alive for Longer

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.
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Doctors Restored a Blind Man’s Vision by Gene-Hacking His Retina Cells

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.
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Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.
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CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

By Dan Robitzski

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.
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Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in Sydney have identified a new gene in zebrafish that could allow human hearts to repair themselves following a heart attack.
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Gene Hack Could Heal Heart After Heart Attack

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.
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Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a gene therapy that was shown to reverse some aspects of aging and extend lifespans in mice.
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New Gene Therapy Reverses Aging in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just approved a gene-hacked pig that was specifically engineered to not produce the allergen alpha-gal for human consumption.
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FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

By Dan Robitzski