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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...
Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she says she was raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C. Nine months...
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It’s not just schools, local governments and major private-sector firms like Colonial Pipeline getting...
After 1900, eugenics became an influential scientific theory used by physicians, health experts, religious leaders and politicians across the political...
The Memorial Day gathering in Kiryat Shmona, like countless others across Israel in early May, begins in the morning at...
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For most of her career, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Stephanie Gustin and doctors like her...
Heritable genome editing is being increasingly viewed as socially and morally acceptable so long as certain criteria are met. However...
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Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who says...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call to accelerate access to genomics, especially in resource-poor countries, in...