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These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.
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Technologies
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Millions of pregnant women get the pitch...
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Most adults support protecting access to in...
The debate over in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a hot-button policy and political issue, despite the medical procedure to...
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Microbiome research has faced a hurdle from the...
Policies
China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.
Germline gene engineering relates...
In her early 30s, Michelle Galea wasn't convinced motherhood was for her.
"I didn't know if I wanted a child...
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Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention...
Society
Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...
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Despite major advances in securing sexual and reproductive rights globally, one aspect is continually...
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I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly...
When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...
Perspectives
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Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China, are mainly located in the autonomous region...
Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...
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As a toddler, Veronica Ayala loved Fridays...