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Technologies
Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...
The Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in September this year. It has been a...
Last week, two women — Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier — were awarded the Nobel Prize for their groundbreaking discovery of...
A few years ago, lawyer Vladimir (name changed) who lives in a big Russian city decided to have a child...
Policies
As the November 3 election approaches, Californians are focusing on the ballot propositions. The money spent on them this year...
Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, complaining of vaginal bleeding. A mother of five children, Lacks was diagnosed by gynecologist...
LOS ANGELES — This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell...
The first president of the California stem cell agency, Zach Hall, says that he would vote against the $5.5...
Society
Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, complaining of vaginal bleeding. A mother of five children, Lacks was diagnosed by gynecologist...
In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to...
SINGAPORE — Singapore already boasts one of the world's most advanced national digital identity programs, SingPass, which residents can use...
In a national database in Argentina, tens of thousands of entries detail the names, birthdays, and national IDs of people...
Perspectives
Last week, the Supreme Court acquiesced to another attack on the voting rights of all Americans. In a 5-3 decision,...
On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence...
Politicians often flatter their audiences, but at a rally in Bemidji, Minn., last month, President Trump found an unusual thing...
The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in...