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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
The once-futuristic idea of sequencing every newborn child’s DNA to screen for genes that could shape their future health is...
A teenager with aggressive leukaemia now has no detectable cancer cells after becoming the first person to receive a treatment...
The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation...
When a scientist announces the opening of a new laboratory, it doesn’t ordinarily make news around the world. But Chinese...
A West Virginia lawmaker is proposing legislation to stop drug offenders from having children in an effort to reduce the...
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to bar police from using robots to kill, in a striking reversal that...
Amanda wanted to warn someone. In June 2021, her daughter — the one she and her husband had tried for...
In a bold attempt to stop the progress of some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, a group of researchers is trying...