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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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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...

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Earlier this year, I had dinner in D.C. with Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. At...

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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A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as...

In the leadup to the 2024 election, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to make IVF more accessible. He made the commitment...

Sir Francis Galton, 1890s, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
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As has been discussed in recent...

Society

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On Thursday afternoon, NSW Health announced a temporary exemption to the donor limit would come into effect in mid to...

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According to an article on BBC News, the Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin...

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Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could...

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For some Greenlanders, sorry isn’t enough.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s...

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...