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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...
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Two prominent bioethicists in China are calling on the...
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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A new book by Dr. Thomas P. Insel...
The Irish government has expedited plans for families with newborn surrogate babies to travel immediately from Ukraine.
It comes as...
It has been a rough 2 weeks for the US science community. After 4 years of bludgeoning by the Trump...
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Penelope Marshall McCown struggled for years to have a baby.
She and...
The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America...