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Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. In fact, twentieth century eugenics represented the mainstream science of its day and...

Vitaly Kushnir’s fertility clinic offers to screen an embryo to predict a baby’s sex, but the service can lead to ethically murky territory, like when a couple wanted it so their first child could be a boy.

But the couple...

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

Protest
By Judith Levine, The Intercept | 04.04.2024

WHEN THE ALABAMA Supreme Court ruled that fertilized embryos were “extrauterine children,” it did more than imperil the future of...

kidney transplant graphic
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 04.03.2024

The first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has fared so well that he was...

IVF
By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times | 04.03.2024

 A Mobile, Ala., hospital at the center of a State Supreme Court ruling that found that frozen embryos could be...

gene therapy graphic
By Tristan Manalac, BioSpace | 04.02.2024

Verve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a...

EGG FREEZING
By Rae Nudson, The Cut | 04.02.2024

At one point during Lisa Xu’s second round of egg freezing last year, she thought to herself, How did I...

he jiankui headshot
By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 04.01.2024

A Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for his role in creating the world’s first genetically edited babies says he has...

Surrogate
By Sabrina Souza and Zoe Sottile, CNN | 04.01.2024

Michigan has become the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy on Monday, after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package...

graphic of IVF
By Eric Cheung, CNN | 03.30.2024

For married Taiwanese men Alan Hung and Danny Huang, the process of having a biological child together was never easy...