OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband are now backing a contentious new venture that intends to use genetic engineering on babies to eliminate inherited diseases. The start-up, Preventive, ...
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One of the most influential figures in modern epidemiology, Professor George Davey Smith from the University of Bristol, has ...
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