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Crispr babies: How a rogue scientist took the role of God The ethics of editing humans are fraught and complex, argues Henry Greely about 4 hours ago Conor Purcell In this kind of human DNA editing, genetic effects are passed on from one generation to the next. Illustration: iStock   On November 25th, 2018, Henry Greely turned on his computer to find an email which read “Crispr babies”. The mail was a link to a story at the MIT Technology Review outlining how a Chinese...

Jerry Yang elected chair of Stanford University Board of Trustees Stanford alumnus Jerry Yang, founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures and co-founder of Yahoo!, has been elected chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, succeeding Jeff Raikes. By Kate Chesley Jerry Yang, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the search engine and web services provider Yahoo! and is currently the founding partner of the venture fund AME Cloud Ventures, has been elected chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees. His two-year term begins July 1, 2021. Jerry Yang (Image credit: Courtesy Jerry Yang)...