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Anchor lead: What are your privacy rights if you have your DNA tested? Elizabeth Tracey reports Perhaps you’ve given a loved one a gift of DNA testing through one of the services available for that purpose, marketed as helping them …

December 28, 2018 – Genetic Testing Read more →

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Anchor lead: How should the recently reported CRISPR twins be followed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine being one of the CRISPR twins, the two babies reportedly born recently with modifications to their DNA made using CRISPR technology. The whole world is …

December 27, 2018 – Following CRISPR Babies Read more →

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Anchor lead: Is the current state of mitochondrial replacement therapy a model for where CRISPR may go? Elizabeth Tracey reports Editing embryos using the technique known as CRISPR has reportedly resulted in the birth of twins, with changes in their …

December 26, 2018 – Heritable Changes Read more →

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Anchor lead: What is the best response to gene-edited babies being born? Elizabeth Tracey reports The announcement that so-called gene edited babies, twins, had been born took the world by storm recently, and unleased a furor of reaction. Jeffrey Kahn, …

December 25, 2018 – CRISPR Babies Read more →