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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 Alison Motluk, The Atlantic | 03.01.2022

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Nothing crystallizes the “her body, my baby” conundrum of surrogacy quite like a...

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By Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News | 02.28.2022

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UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna earned a Nobel Prize...

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By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 02.28.2022

Like millions of Americans, David Berry was curious about his genealogy. He wanted to learn more about his paternal grandfather...

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By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal | 02.26.2022

A few years after her marriage broke up, Aisha Jenkins started thinking about having a baby on her own. She...

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By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 02.25.2022

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Two prominent bioethicists in China are calling on the...

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By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Undark Magazine | 02.24.2022

Since the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, scientists have touted the breakthrough as a blessing to humanity...

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By Ellen Barry, The New York Times | 02.22.2022

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A new book by Dr. Thomas P. Insel...

By Amit Katwala, Wired | 02.21.2022

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complicated range of conditions affecting the behavior, social...