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For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that racism is returning to British society. He has accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of...
A common cold was enough to kill Cora Oakley.
Born in Morristown, N.J., with virtually no immune system, Cora was...
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This piece includes sanist slurs used in the late 19th and...
Gene-editing therapies offer great hope for treating rare diseases, but they face big hurdles: the tremendous time and resources...
Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to...
It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain...
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric...
This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually...