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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

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By Ethan Bronner and Chen Shalita, Bloomberg | 07.19.2022

The Memorial Day gathering in Kiryat Shmona, like countless others across Israel in early May, begins in the morning at...

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By Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th | 07.18.2022

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For most of her career, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Stephanie Gustin and doctors like her...

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By Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Science Animated | 07.15.2022

Heritable genome editing is being increasingly viewed as socially and morally acceptable so long as certain criteria are met. However...

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By Simar Bajaj, Smithsonian Magazine | 07.14.2022

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Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who says...

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By Dann Okoth, SciDev.Net | 07.14.2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call to accelerate access to genomics, especially in resource-poor countries, in...

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By Fabiola Cineas , Vox | 07.13.2022

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To understand how the United States of America became a country without the constitutional...

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By Nairi Shirinian and Meghna Mukherjee, Ms. Magazine | 07.13.2022

It’s no coincidence that the world’s first IVF baby was born just five years after the 1973 Roe v. Wade...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 07.12.2022

A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood...