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There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
Say you’re about to start in vitro fertilization and your clinic offers you a futuristic new option: It can analyze...
The White House on Thursday announced its latest gambit to lower U.S. drug prices: a plan to step in and...
As a teenager, Marie Tornyenu was always having to explain herself. If it wasn’t the chronic absences that had her...
The New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s oldest continually published medical journal, publicly reckoned with its history and complicity...
Leading scientists are calling for a change in the law to help IVF patients donate unused embryos to biomedical research...
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Madhumita Murgia: We’re going to start off today’s episode with somebody named Anders Sandberg.
Anders Sandberg: I’m senior research...
Hackers, using old passwords from customers of the genetic testing company 23andMe, were able to gain access to personal information...
Five years ago, on November 25, 2018, the world learned that a rogue Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had created the...