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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...

babies in the hospital
By Shoshanna Ehrlich, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2023

On Dec. 1, 2023, the Natal Conference will be held in Austin, Texas. Promising to gather the “brightest minds in...

A fertility clinic operating room
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2023

To be a great company founder, they say you should use your own product. Eat your own dog food. But...

synthetic embryos
By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, Bill of Health | 10.13.2023

A synthetic embryo can now be constructed from very early pre-embryonic cells – without the need for an egg or...

a needle and a tube
By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times | 10.11.2023
Respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., is a nasty bug. It’s the leading cause of hospitalizations among American infants and results...
flag of California
By Sam Levin and Maanvi Singh, The Guardian | 10.10.2023

California has become the first state to ban the use of “excited delirium” as a cause of death, prohibiting the...

23andme test package
By Kevin Collier, NBC News | 10.07.2023

Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic...

a crumpled $100 bill on someone's hand
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 10.06.2023

It was one of gene therapy’s greatest successes — and greatest disappointments.

Strimvelis is a potent treatment for a devastating...

 stethoscope in black and white
By Carmen Drahl, NPR | 10.06.2023

It seemed like a pretty straightforward exercise.

Arsenii Alenichev typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering...