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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 wrench on top of the human genome to symbolize gene editing
By Grace Browne, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...

A series of red blood cells, some are sickle shaped
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.16.2023

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging...

Illustration of scales of justice super-imposed over DNA strand
By Letlhokwa George Mpedi, Daily Maverick | 03.15.2023

In his 2021 novel Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro painted a disturbing picture of a world where...

DNA
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 03.14.2023

Saying genetics researchers inconsistently and inappropriately use racial and ethnic labels that fail to capture the complex patterns of human...

a person in a blue lab coat looking into a microscope with a bubble to the left with a DNA double helix in it.
By Katie Hunt, CNN | 03.09.2023

For most of her life, Victoria Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Mississippi, had experienced excruciating bouts of pain...

a blue background with two people in lab coats one of whom is taking a piece of a DNA strand out of the strand
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.08.2023

It's still far too premature to try to use powerful new technologies to edit genes that can be passed down...

a security camera on white background
By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post | 03.07.2023

The FBI and the Defense Department were actively involved in research and development of facial recognition software that they hoped...

two cartoon scientists in lab coats pulling out a rung on the ladder of a DNA double helix. This is on a blue background
By Ian Sample and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 03.06.2023

The next generation of advanced genetic therapies raises profound medical and ethical issues that must be thrashed out to ensure...