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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...

IVF Lab
By Liz Baker, Debbie Elliott, and Susanna Capelouto, NPR | 03.06.2024

The Alabama State Legislature passed a bill Wednesday night granting civil and criminal immunity for in vitro fertilization service providers...

DATA
By Juliet Kunkel, yes! | 03.04.2024
NEJM
By Paul A. Lombardo, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.02.2024

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...

DNA
By Manuel Ansede, El País | 03.01.2024

A team of Italian researchers has reached a major scientific milestone, heralding a revolution in the field of medicine. The...

Eugenics
By Anne Rumberger and Marcy Darnovsky, Science for the People | 02.29.2024

Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after...

Stem cells
By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian | 02.28.2024

Doctors say a man in California who contracted blood cancer while living with HIV is in remission from both potentially...

Genes
By Max Kozlov, Nature | 02.23.2024

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

IVF on microscopic level
By Mary Ziegler, Naomi Cahn, and Sonia Suter, MSNBC | 02.22.2024

This decision will affect the millions of people who become pregnant each year, their families, and their health care providers...