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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
A UK toddler with a rare genetic condition was the first person to receive a new gene therapy that appears...
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced plans to offer its employees a broader set of artificial intelligence tools...
Couples are needlessly going through IVF because male infertility is under-researched, with the NHS too often failing to diagnose treatable...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that racism is returning to British society. He has accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of...
A common cold was enough to kill Cora Oakley.
Born in Morristown, N.J., with virtually no immune system, Cora was...
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This piece includes sanist slurs used in the late 19th and...
Gene-editing therapies offer great hope for treating rare diseases, but they face big hurdles: the tremendous time and resources...
Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to...