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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...

By Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post | 06.11.2021

The devastating news landed in the inboxes of the fertility clinic patients early one morning in March 2018.

A tank...

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By Annabelle Spranklen, Glamour | 06.10.2021

IVF clinics that lie about success rates could face legal action, says regulator

Fertility clinics have been warned that they...

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By Kathleen Garnett, A Bigger Conversation | 06.09.2021

As we await the report on the UK government’s public consultation on ‘The Regulation of Genetic Technologies’ it is a...

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By Philip Ball, The Guardian | 06.09.2021

Twenty years ago, the science journal Nature published the first draft of the human genome: the sequence of chemical “letters”...

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By Sharon Lerner, Lee Fang, The Intercept [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.09.2021

The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...

By Zubin Master, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, and Mohamed Abou-el-Enein, Stem Cell Reports | 06.08.2021

The unproven stem cell intervention (SCI) industry is a global health problem. Despite efforts of some nations, the industry continues...

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By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 06.08.2021

I've written a fair amount about egg donation over the years and have interviewed donors who travelled places to do...

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By Sheetal Soni and Françoise Baylis, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 06.07.2021

Five  years ago, independent research teams in the United States and the United Kingdom succeeded in cultivating human embryos in...