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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...
Medical innovations typically take 17 years from the time a lightbulb goes off in a scientist's head until the first...
In June 2000, Bill Clinton, the then US president, stood smilingly next to the leaders of the Human Genome Project. ...
It’s easy to think of eugenics as something that happened far away from us, with ideals alien to our character...
On January 23, Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), Julia Letlow (R-La.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) introduced the Protecting...
In April of 2021, Emilie Wigdor finished up a paper titled “The female protective effect against autism spectrum disorder” and...
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)—and the research community it supports—believes in the power of human genetics to advance...
When ChatGPT was asked what advances in artificial intelligence mean for the human condition, it responded to our inquiry that...