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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...

Map of Ukraine
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 02.22.2024

In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology...

IVF Petrie Dish
By David Sable, STAT | 02.22.2024

Imagine having 15 miscarriages.

Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and keep trying to have children...

Fertility Clinic
By Azeen Ghorayshi and Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 02.22.2024

The bizarre episode was at the center of lawsuits filed by three families that eventually reached the Alabama Supreme Court...

Genomics Education
By Brian M. Donovan, Monica Weindling, Jamie Amemiya, Brae Salazar, Dennis Lee, Awais Syed, Molly Stuhlsatz, and Jeffrey Snowden, Science | 02.22.2024

For as long as the concept of race has existed, racial prejudice has been justified on hereditary grounds (1...

ivf graphic on a blue background
By Katherine L. Kraschel, Bill of Health | 02.21.2024

Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court called frozen embryos created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) “extrauterine children” and referred to...

gene editing
By Megan Molteni , STAT | 02.21.2024

SAN FRANCISCO — Outside, the August sun wasn’t yet visible through the thick folds of fog blanketing the San Francisco...

DNA test
By Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian | 02.17.2024

What’s next for 23andMe? Most people know the biotech company as a genetic testing service. Stories of people sending their...

Brain Neurons
By Nancy S. Jecker and Andrew Ko, The Conversation | 02.14.2024

How does a brain chip work?

Neuralink’s coin-size device, called N1, is designed to enable patients to carry out actions...