Ethics

A Chinese scientist engineered kids to resist HIV. Here are other changes that could be on the feature list for Humanity 2.0.

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

After watching medical records get traded for billions of dollars, a tech entrepreneur says he can help you grab a share of the bounty.

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

I am not afraid of the prospect of editing human genes. If we do it thoughtfully, it can be a gift to future generations.

Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans.

What “Frankenstein” and the golem tell us about the power and responsibility of science.

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s new book reveals her dreams and nightmares about what she has unleashed.