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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...

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By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 10.26.2020

LOS ANGELES — This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.26.2020

The first president of the California stem cell agency, Zach Hall, says that he would vote against the $5.5...

Osagie K. Obasogie
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to...

Stem cell injection
By Pete Shanks, Capitol Weekly | 10.26.2020

At a time of budget crisis, Proposition 14 commits California to spending $5 billion (plus interest) that we don’t have...

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By Katarina Zimmer, The Scientist | 10.24.2020

Over the course of its 16-year existence, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Oakland has helped transform its state...

By Julia Creet, The Conversation | 10.22.2020

On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence...

Stem cell under microscope
By Rachel Bluth, California Healthline [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.21.2020

SACRAMENTO — In an election year dominated by a chaotic presidential race and splashy statewide ballot initiative campaigns, Californians are...

Map of the world showing countries that prohibit heritable human genome editing in red
By Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 10.20.2020

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Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...