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By Nick Statt, CNet | 01.12.2015
We're decades away from being able to develop a sociopathic supercomputer that could enslave mankind, but artificial intelligence...
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The Public Health Ministry is drafting a bill to regulate stem cell treatment to protect consumers from exaggerated claims and...
By Lisa Rapaport, Reuters | 01.09.2015
(Reuters Health) - A decade after giving birth, surrogate mothers don't appear to suffer lasting mental health difficulties...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.06.2015
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By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 01.05.2015
DNA can reveal an extraordinary amount of private information about you, including familial relationships, medical history, predisposition for disease...
By Myles Jackson, The Huffington Post | 01.05.2015
The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade's recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again...
By Katherine Don, The Atlantic | 01.05.2015
When I suffered my third consecutive miscarriage this past May, my mom said she wanted to help me...