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DNA is the molecule of life: this double-helix structure, present in every cell in the body and organized into fragments...

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MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she...

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Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are...

GeneWatch UK has prepared a briefing on the genetic modification of nature for the International Union for Conservation of Nature...

Policies

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The Australian fertility industry has been rocked by several recent cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups. With a lack of...

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Kathleen Whipple and her husband had dreamed of a big family, but struggled to conceive.

Upon his return from an...

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Reports of several cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups have put the Australian fertility industry in the spotlight for all...

Society

The world's leading transhumanists aren't the voices you need to listen to about "AI safety."

The Internet philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky has been predicting the end of the world for decades. In 1996, he confidently declared...

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Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges...

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We Texans like to do things our way — leave some hide on the fence rather than stay corralled, as...

Biotech

When Nirnay Murthy learned about a treatment for his toddler son’s rare condition, relief quickly gave way to disappointment.

A...

Perspectives

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When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...

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Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...

Donald Trump

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and...

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Many fertility clinics and gamete banks exclude candidate donors who are neurodivergent or have a family history of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence...