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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...

a blue graphic composed of test tubes on the bottom left an egg in the top right and a scientist in the bottom right poking the egg with a needle.
By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.27.2023

It's a Wednesday morning at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in downtown Washington, D.C., and Dr. Eli...

a ratchet wrench working on a yellow strand of DNA
By Ryan Cross and Jared Whitlock, Endpoints News | 05.25.2023

Rich Horgan’s quest to create a custom gene therapy for his brother, Terry, ended in tragedy. But Horgan doesn’t believe...

a stop abortion now sign
By Erika Rodriguez, Minnesota Women's Press | 05.24.2023

In a footnote to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, Samuel Alito referenced an...

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By Jennie Erin Smith, The New York Times | 05.23.2023

José Echeverría spends restless days in a metal chair reinforced with boards and padded with a piece of foam that...

A teal colored photo of IVF taking place
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post | 05.22.2023

Israel's Health Ministry wants to transfer responsibility for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) from private hospitals, which have several times been negligent...

pregnant woman
By Max G. Levy, Wired | 05.22.2023

IN A FUTURE when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier...

ivf fertility clinic
By Helen Pidd, The Guardian | 05.21.2023

England’s first not-for-profit fertility clinic has shut within a year of opening and has been sold to a private provider...

a light blue circle with 3 white icons. The bottom left has a test tube, the middle has a strand of DNA and the upper right has 5 people icons
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.19.2023

Antonio Vento is 13 years old. He’s a tiny figure in bandages who doesn’t walk and, until recently, couldn’t see...