News
For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
In rural Pennsylvania, I’m hiking through the forest with Simone and Malcom Collins and discussing the executive order they wrote...
Human eggs are incredibly rare cells. The ovary typically produces only 400 mature eggs across a woman’s life. But biologists...
A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted...
INTRODUCTION
Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump...
Human embryo at about 8 weeks
by Anatomist90, CC3.0
With debate growing around whether the “14-day rule” on human...
BERKELEY, Calif.—Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying...
A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had...
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has announced plans to publish a POSTnote and called for submissions on surrogacy...