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Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/
Why it matters: Confusing...
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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...
In1961, A college student named David Myers traveled from Washington, DC, to the US Naval School of Aviation Medicine in Florida...
Scientists have long known what causes sickle-cell disease and its devastating effects: a single mutation in one errant gene...
In case you haven’t noticed, stem cell clinics are popping up everywhere. There are hundreds across the country, especially in...
Chinese researchers have cloned five gene-edited monkeys with a host of genetic disease symptoms, according to two scientific papers published...
A year ago, Dr. Matthew Porteus, a genetics researcher at Stanford, received an out-of-the-blue email from a young Chinese scientist...
Doctors say they’ve helped an infertile woman become pregnant by combining her egg with that of a donor—another successful use of...
A Chinese researcher recently disrupted the CCR5 gene, which builds a protein that acts as an entryway that HIV uses...
He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who claimed to have edited the genomes of twin baby girls in a heritable way—and...