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A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money as many of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich turn their attention to one of the most controversial technologies in medicine.

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A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These conditions are informed by many genetic variants and environmental factors - so...

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Torii Gate, Japan
By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

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OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

Great Seal of the Navajo Nation
By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

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On a clear and icy morning in...

Violent protest
By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...

By Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

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Group hugging
By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

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Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...