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  1. First Monkeys with Autism Created in China

    They spin in their cages and don’t interact. The scientists who created autistic monkeys say they’ll now try to cure them.
    January 25, 2016

  2. 23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study

    Trove of consumer gene data yields breakthrough in search for depression genes.
    August 1, 2016

  3. Engineering the Perfect Baby

    Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late?
    March 5, 2015

  4. Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms

    A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep.
    January 6, 2016

  5. Top U.S. Intelligence Official Calls Gene Editing a WMD Threat

    Easy to use. Hard to control. The intelligence community now sees CRISPR as a threat to national safety.
    February 9, 2016