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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

n his 1940 essay “Dusk of Dawn,” the renowned scholar W.E.B. Du Bois reflected back to his early-career...

While the prospects of codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law face high hurdles, Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing...

In a landmark 1972 paper1, physician Theodore Friedmann and biochemist Richard Roblin foresaw a future in which DNA could be...

In October of this year, police officials in Edmonton, Canada were struggling to solve a 2019 sexual assault case in...

Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma...

Most people understand in-vitro fertilization to be privilege for the wealthy, the well-insured, or those living in a country with...

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This is the world’s first artificial womb facility – and it lets you choose...

The once-futuristic idea of sequencing every newborn child’s DNA to screen for genes that could shape their future health is...