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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...

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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...

gene wheel, multicolored
By Emily Tucker, Truthout | 01.07.2025

As Donald Trump’s return to the White House looms, dismantling the most dangerous weapons in the arsenal of executive power...

Predatory Data book cover
By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 01.02.2025

A new book, Predatory Data, by Anita Say Chan, takes on the
throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon
...

CRISPR graphic
By Jules Adam, Labiotech | 12.18.2024

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the biotech industry seems boundless. Its combination with CRISPR could be the one...

DNA dissolving on a yellow background
By Rebecca Roberts, The Scientist | 12.18.2024

Since its discovery in the early 1940s, epigenetics has been established as a key driver of human development, health, aging...

a graphic featuring test tubes and gametes
By Sarojini Nadimpally and Gargi Mishra, The Wire | 12.15.2024

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been in vogue for quite a few decades now. While IVF...

Scientist examining DNA
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.13.2024

 

Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles and seizures...

egg retrieval graphic
By Michelle LePage, TorontoMet Today | 12.13.2024

As more people access fertility services in their journeys to becoming parents, Toronto Metropolitan University professor Katie Hammond says the...