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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...

Alex Stern
By Sean Brenner, UCLA Newsroom | 04.14.2022

Alexandra Minna Stern, currently the associate dean for the humanities at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and...

Charles Murray
By Mitchell Thompson, Jacobin | 04.11.2022

Photo of Charles Murray
by Gage Skidmore on Flickr

When right-wing governments across Canada slash social programs and protections, they...

He Jiankui
By Ed Browne, Newsweek | 04.11.2022

Image of He Jiankui from Wikicommons

Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, who shocked the medical world by claiming he had used...

a baby laying on a ruler
By Kalina Kamenova & Hazar Haidar, Voices in Bioethics | 04.07.2022

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This article examines the bioethical discourse on polygenic embryo screening (PES) in reproductive medicine in blogs and news stories...

IVF
By Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post | 04.06.2022

After several unsuccessful attempts to conceive a baby through in vitro fertilization, a Massachusetts couple learned last year that they...

By Erik Stokstad, Science | 04.05.2022

For conservation biologists, the highest item on the global agenda this year is persuading the world’s nations to agree on...

He Jiankui
By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review | 04.04.2022

The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a...

Jennifer Doudna
By Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 04.04.2022

It’s been 10 years since Crispr pioneer Jennifer Doudna published the landmark paper that landed a Nobel Prize for her...