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NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing — until he and other scientists used a ...

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A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...

kidney transplant

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...

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Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...

Policies

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China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in...

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

President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit...

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On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation...

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As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it...

Society

This is an excerpt of an article originally published on August 1, 2026 at GMWatch.

A six-year-old girl has...

stop forced sterilization

In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...

DNA dissolving

The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...

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Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...

Perspectives

IVF

Since in vitro fertilization was invented nearly 50 years ago, at least 10 million children who would not otherwise exist...

DNA strand

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...

IVF graphic

Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...

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Major news outlets recently reported – based on a bioRxiv preprint – that scientists had edited genes in human embryos...