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By Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News | 10.10.2025

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We Texans like to do things our way — leave some hide on the fence rather than stay corralled, as goes a line in Wallace O. Chariton’s Texas dictionary This Dog’ll Hunt. Lately, I’ve been wondering what this ethos...

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Experimental Human Cell Division Does Not a Baby Make

By Pete Shanks | 10.22.2025

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On September 30th, a team of 21 scientists from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) published a significant paper in Nature Communications, with a scientifically accurate but, to many, somewhat abstruse headline:

Induction of experimental cell division to generate cells with reduced chromosome ploidy

The lead authors were Shoukhrat Mitalipov, recently described here as “a push-the-envelope biologist,” and his long-term colleague Paula Amato. (Recall that in July the pair had co-published with...

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The race to create the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

By Julia Black, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2025

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Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so after a fateful encounter between egg and sperm. This bundle of cells, about the size of...

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Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

By Lizzy Lawrence, Stat News | 10.14.2025

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WASHINGTON — The inquiry came in August, and struck scientists at the Food...

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