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Doctors examine medical images

How Theresa May’s plan for an AI-powered NHS could go very wrong

21 May 2018

Trials of artificial intelligence show it can spot diseases that doctors miss – but rolling the tech out across the UK might prove more difficult

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

25 January 2018

Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky

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