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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...
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing first came on the market about a decade ago, but I resisted the temptation to see what...
The Food and Drug Administration will soon be alerting companies that certain gene therapies in development can qualify for less...
Paying for certain reproductive services in Canada — including egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy — is currently illegal, but...
James Priest couldn’t make sense of it. He was examining the DNA of a desperately ill baby, searching for a...
Margaret Atwood’s 2003 novel Oryx and Crake depicts the evolution and aftermath of a bioengineered global catastrophe. Whether Atwood at...
Yanny or Laurel—could the secret to which word you hear be in your DNA? It’s a notion someone pitched at...
In December 2017, Ohio passed into law legislation that prohibited physicians from performing abortions if the pregnant woman’s decision was...
When 27-year-old Rita Ora announced recently that she had frozen her eggs, she joined a long list of celebrities touting...