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As the biotech revolution accelerates globally, the US could be getting left behind on key technological advances: namely, human genetic modification. A Congressional ban on human germline modification

The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human. The National

Synthetic biology (synbio for short) is a term that circulates freely through the tech world, but what exactly does it mean? It inspires both excitement and concern, depending on application and context.