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Technologies
A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection...
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set...
To better understand certain neuropsychiatric disorders, researchers at Stanford University have bred rodents that lack a cortex and hippocampus and...
The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to make artificial intelligence an integral part of medical care in the United States...
Policies
Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday refused to intervene in a high-profile custody battle that involved difficult questions surrounding surrogacy and...
Earlier this year, Nitza Shmueli posted on Facebook to make an unusual request about her deceased son. “I, Barel’s mother...
China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in...
“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit...
Society
Embryo screening for behavioural traits is no longer speculative. If you want to become a parent in the USA today...
In August, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) published their Scientific Impact Paper on 'social' or 'elective' egg...
THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Perspectives
Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on...
What does it mean when education is considered a threat to population? As an education student, I am interested in...
A WOMAN WHO ACTS AS A SURROGATE, carrying a child for someone else, is said to be going on a...
That is what makes the unfolding case of McKenna West so important. It is more than a disagreement about...