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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...

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By Sarah Crespi, Angela Saini, Warren Cornwall, Science Magazine | 06.29.2023

First up this week on the show, scientists are learning how to “cryopreserve” tissues—from donor kidneys to coral larvae. Contributing...

DNA strands being cut by scissors
By Staff, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.27.2023

As far back as 2015, scientists have been warning against using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to modify germline genomes. Indeed, a perspective...

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By Sophie Putka, MedPage Today | 06.26.2023

George Gibson remembers turning to his wife after a 2015 procedure at a Florida clinic that he thought would help...

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By Nick Schager, The Daily Beast | 06.23.2023

Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia

Cloning is, at heart, about the fear of death and the...

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By Edward Ongweso Jr. , The Nation | 06.23.2023

In the opening pages of his magisterial Bay Area history, Imperial San Francisco, historian Gray Brechin presents his book as...

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By Alice Park, Time | 06.23.2023

For genetic conditions like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, there is little doctors can do to slow or treat the condition other...

5 eggs and what seems to be a needle
By Susan Burton, The New York Times and Serial Productions | 06.22.2023

The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full...

3 babies in 3 different shades of green and they are being compared and ranked against each other
By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 06.22.2023

Campaigners in Japan have reacted angrily to a government report revealing that children as young as nine were among thousands...