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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...

red blood cells
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 03.10.2021

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

Gene therapy researchers are breathing easier after a company reported today that the modified...

pregnant woman's belly
By Carter Sherman, Vice | 03.09.2021

As a health care worker, Jordan McCutcheon could get the COVID-19 vaccine anytime she wants. But the 28-year-old dental...

mother and baby
By Andre M. Perry, The Nation | 03.09.2021

Photo by Larry Crayton on Unsplash

“Push, push, push, Mama; push,” my wife, Joia Crear-Perry, implored. Quiana, angled upright on...

The face of a Chinese woman
By Phoebe Zhang, South China Morning Post | 03.08.2021

Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash

China’s annual parliamentary meetings, the Two Sessions, are under way in Beijing and...

Book covers
By Jackie Leach Scully, Nature | 03.08.2021

CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans Henry T. Greely, MIT Press (2021)

The Code Breaker: Jennifer...

By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian | 03.08.2021

The world’s most expensive drug, which treats babies and young children with a rare and often fatal degenerative disorder, will...

CRISPR
By Jennifer Doudna, Wired | 03.08.2021

Since my colleagues and I first described CRISPR as a genome-engineering tool in 2012, the technique has transformed fundamental research...

By Damien Cave, New York Times | 03.08.2021

SYDNEY, Australia — The tabloids in Australia called Kathleen Folbigg a murderer of innocent babies — the nation’s “worst female...