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Tech bros want to make gene-edited babies, but scientists are sounding the alarm

As tech titans back startups looking to create genetically modified babies, Claudia Cockerell asks: is it about stopping disease, or something darker?

Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2025

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information

Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2025

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2025

The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists

From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2023

Geneticist Adam Rutherford on how eugenics, 'Darwin's monster', took over the world

Adam Rutherford’s new book takes readers on a journey into genetics's dark past.

LiveScience · Apr 6, 2023