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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

A London-based biotech has amassed the world’s largest ethically sourced foundational biodiversity database for training artificial intelligence (AI) by setting...

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For decades in the united states, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a...

IN MAY 1921, the organizers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics assured the public that its conference, to be...

When Na, a Thai woman, saw a Facebook advertisement promising work as a surrogate mother in Georgia, it seemed almost...

Vincent Gaynor remembers, almost to the minute, when he realized his part in birthing the breakthrough gene therapy Zolgensma had...


On 30 January 2025, the Swiss Federal Council announced plans for a comprehensive reform of the Reproductive Medicine Act (RMA)...

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In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...