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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 Amanda Hess, The New York Times | 04.05.2025

Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

For months, an internet-wide guessing...

By Nafeez Ahmed, Byline Times | 04.04.2025

It’s hard to believe, but it’s happening. On 27 March 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order, ‘Restoring...

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By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Abigail Brooks, NBC News | 04.02.2025

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of...

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By Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Times | 04.01.2025

When Noor Siddiqui was growing up, her mother developed retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that leads to gradual vision loss. When...

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By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.30.2025

23andMe, a standard-bearer for the at-home health movement, announced on March 23 that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

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By Megan Molteni, Stat | 03.28.2025

WASHINGTON — Keith Joung knows better than a lot of people what, exactly, it might require to prove to regulators...

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By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 03.27.2025

Around 2018–19, there was not a bigger science and ethical story than the debate over heritable human genome editing (HHGE)...

Donald Trump
By Sara Nović, The Guardian | 03.27.2025

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Twelve days before Donald Trump took...