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Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...
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This story starts, of all things, with...
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...
A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by...
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in...
Earlier this year, investment bank UBS put out a report heralding artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, saying it was...
After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or...
A year before Ashley Sheffield left the military, she and her partner decided to try to have a child. The...