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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...
The government plans to drastically revise its basic policy on conducting research on human embryos, in an effort to implement...
Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care – an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health...
This article is part of the series Evil Infrastructures.
What happens when white supremacists take genetic ancestry tests (GAT)...
Dr. John Zhang, a well-known specialist in reproductive medicine who runs the New Hope Fertility Center out of a vast...
Fertility problems and lack of donors continue to prop up black market.
A 17-year-old girl sold more than 20 of...
The debate over a fish shows that scientists can be too quick to dismiss the public’s concerns.
“Keep Frankenfish off...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are toughening their financial conflict-of-interest policies after publishing reports that some critics...
Genetic testing, once the realm of science fiction, has come so far that millions of physicians, and their patients, use...