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A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

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I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

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IN 2013, A SERIES of ads...

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Millions of pregnant women get the pitch...

China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.
Germline gene engineering relates...

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Most adults support protecting access to in...

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Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games promise to be...

The debate over in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a hot-button policy and political issue, despite the medical procedure to...