Affective disorders are highly heritable, but few genetic risk variants have been consistently replicated in molecular genetic association studies. The common method of defining psychiatric phenotypes ...
Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...
Reynolds, Ph.D., is Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities at The Hastings Center. On August 2nd, scientists achieved a milestone on the path to human genetic engineering. For ...
Kevin Esvelt is a genetic engineer, but glance at his travel schedule and you could mistake him for a political organizer. Over the past year, the MIT professor has become a familiar face at town ...
Fifty years ago today, scientists met to set safety limits on the new field of genetic engineering. This week researchers meet again to discuss big questions as biotechnology grows more powerful.