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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...

pregnant belly
By Josie Ensor, The Times | 12.03.2024

It was somewhere between the third and fourth child that Catherine Pakaluk had a revelation.

“There was this sense that...

Book Cover of We Europeans
By Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, Aeon | 12.02.2024

In the 18th century, European scholars began to envision a more enlightened world in harmony with nature. The old aristocratic...

woman and doctor
By Jackie Davalos and Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg | 12.02.2024

Photo by CDC on Unsplash

As Anya walked into the fertility clinic for an appointment to have her eggs retrieved...

baby feet
By Susan Dominus, The New York Times | 11.30.2024

In the days after Daphna Cardinale delivered her second child, she experienced a rare sense of calm and wonder. The...

By Christy Santhosh, Reuters | 11.27.2024

Nov 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing the need for regulatory action on bluebird bio's ...

graphic depicting genetic selection
By Julia Brown and Daphne Martschenko, The San Francisco Standard | 11.23.2024

“Pronatalist” parents like Simone and Malcolm Collins want it all: optimized babies – lots of them. 

To achieve this goal...

uterus
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.22.2024

Earlier this year, a boy in Sweden celebrated his 10th birthday. Reproductive scientists and doctors marked the occasion too. This...

willow brook
By Carl Elliott, The New York Review of Books | 11.21.2024

Photo "Traces of Willowbrook" by Matt Green on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

In academic medicine, as with Confederate statuary...