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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...

good and bad DNA
By Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, Psychology Today | 10.30.2024

In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolutionApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...

IVF
By Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times | 10.29.2024

SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...

embryos
By Zeenat Beebeejaun, PET | 10.28.2024

Building on the 2016 BBC Panorama documentary 'Inside Britain's Fertility Business', which exposed the use of controversial fertility treatment add-ons...

computer
By David Gilbert, Wired | 10.24.2024

AI-INFUSED SEARCH ENGINES from GoogleMicrosoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race...

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By Françoise Baylis and Katie Hasson, The Conversation | 10.24.2024

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...

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By Walt Bogdanich and Carson Kessler, The New York Times | 10.23.2024

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the...

CRISPR editing on DNA strand
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.22.2024

In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, ...

ivf
By Ruth Retassie, PET | 10.21.2024

Former IVF patients in the USA have filed class action lawsuits against several companies for misleading them about the efficacy...