Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Splicing DNA in petri dish. The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

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Could we genetically optimize human beings? This scenario, which sounds like something out of science fiction, has never been so close. It raises ethical questions, which Bertolt Meyer, who was born ...