Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Gene editing technology, a major biotechnology advance, is ...

Most creation myths come with a curse attached. Adam and Eve had to labour for eating that knowledge-giving apple. Prometheus notoriously got a bad time for stealing life-giving fire. And throughout ...

Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least in lab-grown human cells. The project, led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume of Mie ...

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