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Technologies
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing — until he and other scientists used a ...
A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...
Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...
Policies
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...
At least 30 children, most of them British, are feared to have been conceived by IVF treatment in northern Cyprus...
Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a...
Society
This is an excerpt of an article originally published on August 1, 2026 at GMWatch.
A six-year-old girl has...
The pseudoscience of eugenics, founded on the mistaken notion that nature envisions some “right” combination of genes, and that selective...
In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...
The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...
Perspectives
What We Inherit by Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko; and Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden have a great...
Since in vitro fertilization was invented nearly 50 years ago, at least 10 million children who would not otherwise exist...
Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation...
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...