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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...
In November 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he announced, first on YouTube and then at an international...
A life-size bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used...
The European Commission, the European Union (EU) executive responsible for proposing legislation, has proposed new regulation to allow parenthood rights...
Women recruited by an international surrogacy agency to carry babies for wealthy clients are being asked to undergo “unethical” medical...
In 1961, a new journal of ethnology and anthropology appeared on academic bookshelves. Nearly every page betrayed an obsession with...
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...