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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...
Stanford bioethicist Henry Greely predicts that a large proportion of human pregnancies — perhaps even 90% in the United States...
Ann Leary’s 2022 novel The Foundling follows a young white woman, Mary Engle, who in the 1930s lands a job...
The gene editing techniques that have revolutionized medicine since 2016 could also be used to treat common heart diseases, the...
Nick Bostrom, an influential philosopher at the University of Oxford who has been called the “father” of the longtermism movement...
Two prestigious campuses of the University of California are eyeing the creation of an entity that would cover the multimillion-dollar price tags...
I met the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt for the first time at a meeting at West Point in 2015 that was...
The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of...