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in Future Human

The Military Is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check

Efforts involving brain-computer interfaces pose myriad risks to would-be supersoldiers

You Have a 50/50 Chance of Passing a Cancer Gene to Your Child. What Would You Do?

Genetic testing can catch markers of disease before they’re transmitted to future generations — presenting some would-be parents with a…

A New Kind of Gene Editing Could Turn Back the Clock on a Rapid Aging Disease

Research in mice shows promise for curing progeria, a disease that causes rapid aging and early death

Implanted Devices Are the Future of Medicine, but They’re Vulnerable to Hackers

Electronic medical implants can come with serious security risks

Scientists Just Stored 52 Pages of Mozart in DNA

DNA storage could decrease our reliance on energy-intensive data centers

Evidence Is Mounting That Gene-Editing Human Embryos Can Have Destructive Side Effects

Errors made while editing could be passed on to future generations

How Do We Know If a Virus Is Bioengineered?

Detecting bioengineering is a fraught task for any organism

The Next Gene-Edited Babies Could Be Free of Sickle Cell or Muscular Dystrophy

But the technology isn’t reliable enough yet, says a global committee

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