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Technologies

The Center for Genetics and Society is delighted to recommend the current edition of GMWatch Review – Number...

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Human eggs are incredibly rare cells. The ovary typically produces only 400 mature eggs across a woman’s life. But biologists...

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A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had...

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President Donald Trump has nicknamed himself “the fertilization president,” but six months after he formally pledged to expand...

Policies

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A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted...

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INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump...

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Human embryo at about 8 weeks
by Anatomist90, CC3.0

With debate growing around whether the “14-day rule” on human...

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President Trump has signed an Executive Order to end birthright citizenship...

Society

On July 21, the American Academy for Pediatrics (AAP) released new landmark recommendations for the care of children with trisomy...

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BERKELEY, Calif.—Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying...

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The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has announced plans to publish a POSTnote and called for submissions on surrogacy...

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In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California...

Perspectives

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Key Topics

How does the American far right view genetics and genetic technologies?

What is the history of the American...

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In this episode of Disability Deep Dive, hosts Keith and Jodi explore the complex interplay between disability science, technology...

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Before a baby in the United States reaches a few days old, doctors will run biochemical tests on a few...

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The controversial founder of a Danish sperm bank has launched a new app in the UK that allows sperm donors...