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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...

gene therapy
By Brittany Trang, STAT | 12.13.2023

PHILADELPHIA — The meds Shelby Campbell needed for her rare blood disorder stopped working just after her sixth birthday. She...

pregnancy tests
By Cynthia R. Greenlee, The Guardian | 12.11.2023

For many Black women in the US, infertility has a complicated duality. The inability to conceive is often invisible, pushed...

sickle cell in test tube
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post [cites CGS’ Pete Shanks ] | 12.08.2023

The first medicine based on gene editing, a one-time therapy for sickle cell disease, was just approved in the...

sickle cells
By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times | 12.08.2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought...

embryos on blue background
By Carey Goldberg, The Boston Globe | 12.07.2023

Say you’re about to start in vitro fertilization and your clinic offers you a futuristic new option: It can analyze...

gene therapy money
By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post | 12.07.2023

The White House on Thursday announced its latest gambit to lower U.S. drug prices: a plan to step in and...

scales weighing fertility vs gene therapy
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 12.06.2023

As a teenager, Marie Tornyenu was always having to explain herself. If it wasn’t the chronic absences that had her...

front page of 1814 NEJM
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 12.06.2023

The New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s oldest continually published medical journal, publicly reckoned with its history and complicity...