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The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, a three-day conference organized by the Royal Society, the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and The World Academy of Sciences, was held this week in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London.…

The last time this summit convened in 2018, the world was shocked to hear a scientist had created the first gene-edited babies. He was condemned, but gene-editing has continued, with some success.

An increasingly inexpensive genetic test stands in the way of a diagnosis for many rare disease patients, who are as common as one in 10 worldwide.

Cheap, portable sequencers in poor countries could be key to identifying and halting emerging diseases before they have a chance to become a pandemic.

Unless people are brought into conversations about genetic discrimination dystopian scenarios may come to pass.

Collecting DNA data is not much help without the key to understanding what it all means. And that key is centralised health records.

Cost, availability and sample preservation are the main concerns but progress is rapid.

As the world’s top human genome editing researchers gather in London, the ethical issues posed by pioneering scientific advances will be high on their agenda

Scientists at US-based firm Colossal Biosciences believe they may successfully rebuild the dodo genome in the body of a living relative