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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...
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough...
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This story starts, of all things, with...
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...
A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by...
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in...
Earlier this year, investment bank UBS put out a report heralding artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, saying it was...
After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or...