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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...

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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...

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By Max Bayer, Fierce Biotech | 07.31.2023

The FDA's Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., thinks gene editing—specifically base editing—could be a "game changer," but progress has been slow, likely due...

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By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.27.2023

Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients...

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By Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian | 07.26.2023

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The Italian parliament has approved a bill criminalising people who go abroad to have...

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By Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie, The Conversation | 07.25.2023

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the ...

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By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.24.2023

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...

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By Ilya Gridneff, Emily Schultheis and Dmytro Drabyk , Politico [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.23.2023

KYIV, Ukraine  When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...

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By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | 07.20.2023

It’s really important for people to understand what this bundle of ideologies is, because it’s become so hugely influential, and...

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By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 07.20.2023

Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding high...