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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...

human brain connected to electrical circuits
By Jonathan Shaffer, Arsenii Alenichev, and Marlyn C. Faure, BMJ Global Health | 11.03.2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical...

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By Derrick Gingery, Pink Sheet | 11.01.2023

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...

sickle cell
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.31.2023
A panel of experts said on Tuesday that a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease was safe enough for clinical...
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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 10.31.2023

On May 31, 2022, Colorado was the first state in the country — and the only one to date —...

pig in a bucket
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 10.31.2023

A 58-year-old man with heart failure who received a new heart from a genetically modified pig died on Monday, nearly...

HIV t-cell
By Cormac Sheridan, Nature Biotechnology | 10.30.2023

A gene-editing therapy based on CRISPR–Cas9 designed to eliminate HIV-1 infection has rekindled hopes among scientists that it may be...

5 babies in a row
By Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières, Le Monde [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson] | 10.29.2023

Persuadés que notre espèce est en train de disparaître, Malcom et Simone Collins, un couple américain en attente de son...

genes
By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.27.2023

Fyodor Urnov, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of genome editing and one of the scientists most invested in...