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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...
Behavior genetics, its forbear eugenics, and its cousins sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have always been political sciences. When not being...
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A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the...
A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion...
Paul Wood didn’t buy it.
For years, the former pharmaceutical industry executive watched from the sidelines as biotech startups raked...
Over the past decade, our ability to alter the human genome has rapidly improved, largely due to advancements in genome...
In the final chapter of her 1995 memoir of manic-depression, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison posed a question...
Anne Wojcicki is sitting on a treasure trove of genetic data. Wojcicki, a co-founder and the chief executive of the...