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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...

By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 12.13.2020

Amid a raging global pandemic, the field of gene editing made major strides in 2020. For years, scientists have been...

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By Eben Kirksey, Financial Review | 12.11.2020

Simply Google “BGI NIFTY” and you will find a slick website from China’s premier genomics company offering new...

DNA
By Luke Shors, Neo.Life | 12.10.2020

Fifty years before we solved it, long before its information began filling scientific headlines and pharmaceutical shelves, and even before...

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 12.09.2020

A gene therapy for a rare form of blindness seems to work well – but the genes injected into one...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.09.2020

When Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe began to research coronavirus infections among Black and Hispanic patients, he thought he knew what he...

Jennifer Doudna
By John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 12.07.2020

Just weeks after I interviewed her this September, UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier were jointly...

Chinese army training
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 12.07.2020

China has reportedly conducted tests on members of its armed forces in hopes of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,”...

Sickle cells
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.05.2020

It is a double milestone: new evidence that cures are possible for many people born with sickle cell disease and...