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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...

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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...

a graphic showing certain genes acceptable and others not
By Auriane Polge, Science & Vie [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.19.2025

L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

Gelsinger
By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...

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By Peter de Kruijff, ABC News | 09.16.2025

Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it is organic, wild harvested, or farmed.

Or perhaps it was...

IVF graphic interrupted partway
By Jackie Davalos, Bloomberg | 09.15.2025

Kindbody, one of the largest fertility companies in the US, sought to disrupt egg freezing and IVF by combining spa...

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By Dorian Accoe, BioNews | 09.15.2025

Many fertility clinics and gamete banks exclude candidate donors who are neurodivergent or have a family history of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence...

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By Georgia Brice, BioNews | 09.15.2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends three NHS-funded IVF cycles for those eligible under 40...

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By Aaron Ginn, The Washington Post | 09.12.2025

Earlier this year, I had dinner in D.C. with Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. At...