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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...

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...

In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...

Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 41-year-old Dutch musician, may have merely been doing a kind and generous act when he...

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MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...

The Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales have published proposals to reform UK surrogacy law.
Their joint report...