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A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...
Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.
Sounds like science fiction...
Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins.
At the...
AnnaMaria Gallozzi and her husband wanted to have a second child last year. Because Gallozzi has advanced breast cancer, the...
The Internet philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky has been predicting the end of the world for decades. In 1996, he confidently declared...
Before dawn on a March morning, Doug Whitney walked into a medical center 2,000 miles from home, about to transform...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges...