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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

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...

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By Jonathan Moens, Undark | 12.14.2022

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

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.13.2022

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

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By Jenni Quilter, Slate | 12.13.2022

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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By Metro Tech Reporter, Metro | 12.13.2022

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

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By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.12.2022

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

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By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 12.11.2022

A teenager with aggressive leukaemia now has no detectable cancer cells after becoming the first person to receive a treatment...

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By Fyodor Urnov, The New York Times | 12.09.2022

The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation...

He Jiankui at his panel in 2018
By Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun | 12.08.2022

When a scientist announces the opening of a new laboratory, it doesn’t ordinarily make news around the world. But Chinese...