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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...
Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.
Earlier this year, we...
Lorne and Jaclyn Rembach could have had kids without any medical intervention. They were in their early thirties and fertile...
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can and should play a leading role in dictating the future of the world’s...
For generations, the Yu family of Shanghai has suffered from type 2 diabetes. But this summer, as reported in the...
This week I wrote about a fascinating experiment that involved implanting human brain cells into rats’ brains. The brain...
Ken Burns’s recently released film, The US and the Holocaust, is, as anticipated, an excellent addition to his growing...
The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and...
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In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”...