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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 Nick Reynolds, Newsweek | 12.07.2022

A West Virginia lawmaker is proposing legislation to stop drug offenders from having children in an effort to reduce the...

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By Niha Masih, The Washington Post | 12.07.2022

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to bar police from using robots to kill, in a striking reversal that...

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By Anna Clark, Adriana Gallardo, Jenny Deam and Mariam Elba, ProPublica | 12.06.2022

Amanda wanted to warn someone. In June 2021, her daughter — the one she and her husband had tried for...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.05.2022

In a bold attempt to stop the progress of some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, a group of researchers is trying...

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By Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 12.05.2022

The FDA has set out its reasons for putting Verve Therapeutics’ high cholesterol gene editing therapy on hold. Officials want...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.05.2022

Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received...

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By Daniella Silva, NBC News | 12.02.2022

A vote by San Francisco city supervisors in support of allowing police to use robots to kill people in emergency...

He Jiankui
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.29.2022

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison...