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Anyone wanting to cut down on meat this Veganuary or beyond might be looking to fill the gap with meat-free products that look and taste like meat.

From time to time I have posted updates on this blog about the evolving international discussion surrounding human heritable genome editing…

Filmic dystopias are a great way to imagine how current and prospective scientific developments might be abused in the ‘not too distant future’.

Now it is coming up to decision time about our next in-depth project, which will begin in early 2020.

Two years after we published our report on NIPT, and seven years after NIPT became available in the UK, we were frustrated by a lack of action by regulators, professional bodies and private companies in response to our recommendations for improving practice. What a difference six months can make.

Last week, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, announced a new partnership between the NHS and Amazon’s Alexa…