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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...
Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.
In February, the nineteenth-century naturalist...
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...