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Designer Child Corporations Are in Turmoil

Two corporations that launched final 12 months with plans to create gene-edited…

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A Startup Says It Grew Human Sperm in a Lab—and Used It to Make Embryos

The purpose, he says, is to create hundreds of sperm from a…

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This Beanie Is Designed to Learn Your Ideas

Speech-to-text functionality is now baked into all modern computers. However what in…

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This Chinese language Startup Needs to Construct a New Mind-Pc Interface—No Implant Required

China’s brain-computer interface trade is growing fast, and the latest firm to…

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He Went to Jail for Gene-Modifying Infants. Now He’s Planning to Do It Once more

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific…

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Crispr Pioneer Launches Startup to Make Tailor-made Gene-Enhancing Therapies

Final February, a sick toddler named KJ obtained a gene-editing treatment made…

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AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving

For example, researchers at Imperial College were investigating how certain “pirate phages”—these…

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Brain Gear Is the Hot New Wearable

Ten years ago, a Fitbit was about as sophisticated a wearable as…

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Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being…

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