There is growing appetite in Silicon Valley for the legally murky and morally frowned upon practice of embryo-editing. This is how it would work: Companies would use existing gene-editing technology ...

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The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. The competing requirements of fusion breeder blankets and the high dimensionality of their design space necessitate a systematic ...

A couple are to have Britain's first 'designer' baby to try to prevent their four-year-old son dying of leukaemia. The baby was selected as an embryo to ensure it would have a perfect bone marrow ...

Two days after his historic birth, Jamie Whitaker is cradled lovingly in the arms of the brother he was born to save. Jamie is Britain's first "designer" baby - genetically matched while still an IVF ...

Tavern Keeper's a game with a bit of a history—taking Greenheart Games a whopping 11 years to make, it finally released into Early Access earlier this month after a series of solid, but limited demos, ...

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