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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...

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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...

stethoscope on baby's back
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.28.2021

Orchard Therapeutics this morning formally announced it was giving up on its life-saving treatment for the bubble baby disease and...

Plastic models of various stages of embryonic development
By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 05.27.2021

Image via Flickr CC BY 2.0

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), which bills itself as “the...

DNA
By Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times | 05.26.2021

The decision of whether to have a child can be hard even under the best of circumstances. For those with...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 05.26.2021

The world’s largest stem cell society this week signaled a willingness to reconsider a long-standing restriction on laboratory efforts to...

And eight-cell embryo
By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 05.26.2021

The international body representing stem-cell scientists has torn up a decades-old limit on the length of time that scientists should...

A human embryo
By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.26.2021

For decades, scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than 14 days. The...

test tubes in rack
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.26.2021

New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human...

a black and white cow staring straight ahead
By Matt Reynolds, Wired UK | 05.25.2021

Laura Domigan is a chronicler of cows. Every biographical detail and pharmacological footnote could be crucial, so the biochemist has...