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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 Eric B. Kmiec, Stat | 07.11.2022

Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost...

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By Emily Baumgaertner , Los Angeles Times | 07.10.2022

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SAN DIEGO — As a single mother in her mid-20s, Lilly Frost was working as...

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By Lisa C. Ikemoto, Los Angeles Times | 07.07.2022

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six...

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By Jan Hoffman, The New York Times | 07.05.2022

Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is reasonably certain that she and her husband are...

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By Anja Herrman, Teen Vogue | 07.05.2022

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While my generation has, up until now, always had the right to a legal ...

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By Ian Sample , The Guardian | 07.05.2022

Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive...

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By Caroline A. B. Redhead, Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Leah Gilman, Lucy Frith, The Conversation | 07.04.2022

The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten...

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By Carissa Wong, New Scientist | 07.01.2022

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A new form of the genome-editing technique CRISPR could provide a more accurate way to...