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For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s...
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely...
In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies...
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want...
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Introduction: Surrogacy Debates in
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Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins.
At the...
Egg freezing is one of today’s fastest-growing reproductive technologies. It's seen as a kind of 'fertility insurance' for the future...