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Technologies

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When Talaya Reid was in high school, in a quiet suburb of Philadelphia, she developed fatigue so severe that she...

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Chris Mason is a man in a hurry.

“Sometimes walking from the subway to the lab takes too long...

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MUMBRA, India — The afternoon sun shines on the woman in a commuter-town café, highlighting her almond-shaped eyes and pale...

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A heart attack patient has become the first person to be treated in a clinical trial of an experimental gene...

Policies

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A recent surrogacy case in Peru had...

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Washington, DC—At a press conference held at the US Department of Health and Human Services headquarters on Feb. 23...

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When a family created through surrogacy abroad returns to their home country after the birth of the child, the genetic...

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In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of...

Society

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The reproductive tech company Orchid recently launched a genetic test that promises a whole genome sequencing report for embryos. It...

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The pharmaceutical giant Novartis has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were...

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Who gets to be "hot" in America? And, at what cost?

Some young men are pushing beauty boundaries with guidance...

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It’s well known that Jeffrey Epstein was a super-wealthy pedophile with an extraordinary network of powerful friends: tech billionaires, politicians...

Perspectives

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IN MARCH 2017, then–vice president Mike Pence tweeted a photo of himself at a table with members of the House...

Last month, we published “The Shameful Legacy of Tuskegee” which focused on a proposed experiment in Guinea-Bissau. The...

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Since I started working to understand the radicalization of young men, I’ve gotten asked the same question everywhere I go...

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When Bad Bunny took the Super Bowl halftime stage, he performed one of the most beautiful examples of refusal I...