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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 Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 08.23.2025

For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”.

After two years of trying to conceive, Erica...

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By Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times | 08.21.2025

Less than two weeks after an Alabama Supreme Court decision upended in vitro fertilization in the state and prompted a...

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By Holly Baxter, The Independent | 08.19.2025

In rural Pennsylvania, I’m hiking through the forest with Simone and Malcom Collins and discussing the executive order they wrote...

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By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 08.19.2025

Human eggs are incredibly rare cells. The ovary typically produces only 400 mature eggs across a woman’s life. But biologists...

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By Editors, Nature | 08.15.2025

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted...

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By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump...

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By Molly Gray, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 08.13.2025

Human embryo at about 8 weeks
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With debate growing around whether the “14-day rule” on human...

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By Zusha Elinson, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2025

BERKELEY, Calif.—Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying...