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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
Hidden effects on metabolism and ageing may make it harder to rid future generations of devastating inherited diseases using a...
In 1975, the Swedish government decided it could help medical research by collecting a blood sample from every child born...
A US-based commercial surrogacy agency, Surrogacy Cambodia, has begun marketing to US citizens “personalised services” – including surrogacy and gender...
I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. Confined to a wheelchair and unable to...
For years, ethicist Arthur Caplan warned medical researchers that paying businesses to evaluate their clinical trials was a bad idea...
Between 1929 and 1974, the state of North Carolina sterilized around 7,600 people whom it deemed unfit for parenting.
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“Scientism” is the belief that all we need to solve the world’s problems is, you guessed it, science. People sometimes...
In the febrile world of health startups, entrepreneurs are racing to quantify every possible bodily and environmental function. And so...