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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 Isabela Dias, Mother Jones | 10.07.2024

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It was...

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By Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine | 10.02.2024

WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...

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By Deena Beasley, Reuters | 09.28.2024

Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe...

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By Sara Moretto, The Varsity | 09.22.2024

It was 2020. I was wrapping up grade nine science with a solid 60 per cent, hoping that if anyone...

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By Don Sapatkin, Managed Healthcare Executive | 09.20.2024

Gene therapy comes with the expectation that it will “cure” an expanding number of genetic disorders. If you’ve never wondered...

Red Blood Cells
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.17.2024

For most of her life, Genesis Jones’s daily routine revolved around her illness, the painful blood disorder known as sickle-cell...

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By Gabby Del Valle, The Baffler | 09.17.2024

IT’S A COMMON STORY, banal, even: a child of privilege, an heir apparent, leaves for college to get a good...

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By Deirdre Walsh , NPR | 09.17.2024

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to provide a nationwide right to IVF treatments. It was the second time Senate...