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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...

Timnit Gebru
By Karen Hao , MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2020

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On the evening of Wednesday, December 2, Timnit Gebru, the co-lead...

DNA Code
By Katie Hasson, Impact Ethics | 12.04.2020

The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...

New York classroom
By Rachel Rippetoe, The Imprint [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.03.2020

In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply...

Vaccine syringe
By Caroline Seydel , Forbes | 12.02.2020

While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been...

Eugenics signage
By Knute Berger, Crosscut | 12.01.2020

Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...

By Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, Walter Johnson, Slate | 12.01.2020

On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies...

Cradles and a globe
By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several...

By Guido Pennings, BioNews | 11.30.2020

There are two strong ethical reasons to avoid harm to egg donors: a duty to minimise harm and the proportionality...