(See “DNA Revolution,” in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic.) No technology remotely as powerful has existed before for the manipulation of the human genome. Compare CRISPR and IVF.

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This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... geneticists analyzing DNA bread-crumb trails of modern human migration would prove Cook right: Tupaia’s ancestors ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National ... used to edit a human embryo’s germ line—cells that contain genetic material that can be inherited by the next generation—either ...

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This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where it’s feeling the most impact from human ...