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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...

Pregnant woman
By Caitlin Ashworth, The Thaiger | 02.07.2021

An alleged illegal transnational surrogacy ring, posed as a cleaning company, was busted by Thailand’s cybercrime police after surrogate mothers...

Human genome
By Kahryn Maxson Jones, et al., Science | 02.05.2021

Millions of people today have access to their personal genomic information. Direct-to-consumer services and integration with other “big data” increasingly...

Man in a wheelchair
By Elliot Kukla, New York Times | 02.04.2021

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I am online with eight members of the family of my client, a nursing...

By Duana Fullwiley, Boston Review | 02.04.2021

Some of my ancestors might live just up the street. They are the people who own the black camper van...

By Casey Ross, STAT | 02.04.2021

The genetics testing company 23andMe will enter the public markets via a special purpose acquisition corporation sponsored by Virgin Group...

Football players in action
By Pete Madden, Cho Park, and Ryan Smith, ABCNews | 02.03.2021

The NFL insists that its concussion settlement program does not require the clinicians who evaluate former players for payouts to...

Book cover
By Becca Muir, Science for the People | 02.01.2021

Before Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman wrote Biotech Juggernaut, Newman helped Stevens fight legal action from an unexpectedly powerful...

By Zeynep Gurtin | 02.01.2021

More women in the UK than ever before are considering freezing their eggs, with the sharp rise in inquiries at...