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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...

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By Ewan Bolton, The Telegraph | 11.12.2024

Fertility agencies offering embryo selection for IVF and surrogacy have been accused of promoting eugenics and misleading consumers about the...

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By Bernice Lottering, Gene Online | 11.08.2024

South Africa’s updated health-research ethics guidelines, which now include heritable human genome editing, have sparked concern among scientists. The revisions...

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By Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo and Traci Watson, Nature | 11.08.2024

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From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance...

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By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharmaDive | 11.05.2024

A medicine built around a more precise form of CRISPR gene editing appeared to work as designed in its first...

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By Bill Newman and Demetra Georgiou, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

We were alarmed to read the findings of your investigation into an international network of “race science” activists seeking to...

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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

When Simone Collins, a Republican running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, and her husband, Malcolm, were privately asked...

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By Jennifer Denbow, Nursing Clio | 10.31.2024

Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party...