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Boy, girl... or intersex? Law and gender

19 October 2017

Boy or girl? This is one of the first questions all new parents are asked. In a small percentage of cases, the answer isn鈥檛 straightforward: the child is intersex. In a highly gendered society, how does the law apply to people whose physiology doesn鈥檛 fit the binary categories of male and female?聽

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Snip, snip, cure: correcting defects in the genetic blueprint

14 July 2017

Gene editing using 鈥榤olecular scissors鈥 that snip out and replace faulty DNA could provide an almost unimaginable future for some patients: a complete cure. Cambridge researchers are working towards making the technology cheap and safe, as well as examining the ethical and legal issues surrounding one of the most exciting medical advances of recent times.

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