It was one of the worst accidents in the history of reproductive medicine.
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Technologies
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When Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy...
A half-decade after a scientist’s reckless experiment with human embryos put a stop to much of China’s clinical work on...
Amy Yin always envisioned having at least two daughters. She spent her 20s working as an engineer and founding...
Policies
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New York City is denying...
A sperm donor fathers more than 150 children. A cryobank misleads prospective parents about a donor’s stellar credentials and...
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As radical as the contemporary GOP has become in recent years, it remains...
Society
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When Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy...
Answers to our greatest questions, we were told about a decade ago, could be ours if we just spat in...
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The political debate around access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) intensified this year, following...
If you’re looking for a book where good triumphs over evil, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Cost...
Perspectives
Medicine has entered a new era in which scientists have the tools to change human genetics directly, creating the potential...
“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”
Her voice came heavy through my headphones as...
Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...
“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...