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Technologies
A UK toddler with a rare genetic condition was the first person to receive a new gene therapy that appears...
Couples are needlessly going through IVF because male infertility is under-researched, with the NHS too often failing to diagnose treatable...
Gene-editing therapies offer great hope for treating rare diseases, but they face big hurdles: the tremendous time and resources...
It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain...
Policies
Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy...
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This piece includes sanist slurs used in the late 19th and...
Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to...
Recently, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from stem cell clinics, which challenged the Food and Drug...
Society
In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that racism is returning to British society. He has accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of...
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric...
Perspectives
Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, MacArthur Genius, liberationist, storyteller, writer, and friend of CGS, died...
Egg freezing is one of today’s fastest-growing reproductive technologies. It's seen as a kind of 'fertility insurance' for the future...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years as...