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Transcell Biologics, led by S. Dravida, is developing AI-powered stem cell testing platforms to replace animal testing in ...

In 1982, when I wrote my first ethics column for Genetic Engineering News, enthusiasm for genetic engineering’s potential to remake medicine, manufacturing, and agriculture was set against grave ...

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota is director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. This article, "Using the CARES Framework to Build Ethical Biotech Startups" , originally ...

WASECA, Minn. -- Is biotechnology ethical? About 40 clergy gathered at Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca last week to learn more about biotechnology in agriculture and debate the issue.

Medical and legal authorities spoke about the ethics and future of biotechnology at a Friday panel hosted by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School. As part of ...

Dr. Anthony Atala, head of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. in June 2019. CAITLIN PENNA NYT The biotech future is here. Advances in biotechnology helped ...

The first of his worries is the notion of introducing heritable mutations into the human genome. He Jianqui did this to three human female embryos in China in 2018, so the three girls with the ...

In my experience, launching a biotech startup is one of the most thrilling and consequential ventures a person can undertake. It combines the drive of entrepreneurship with the weight of human health.