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Technologies
The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
Acompany started by University of Pennsylvania scientist Jim Wilson has received FDA approval to test a form of gene editing...
WHEN THE ALABAMA Supreme Court ruled that fertilized embryos were “extrauterine children,” it did more than imperil the future of...
A Mobile, Ala., hospital at the center of a State Supreme Court ruling that found that frozen embryos could be...
Policies
A decade ago, researcher Haruko Obokata caused a sensation when she published two papers in the journal Nature, in which...
Michigan has become the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy on Monday, after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package...
For married Taiwanese men Alan Hung and Danny Huang, the process of having a biological child together was never easy...
A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...
Society
CGS is excited to announce the launch of a new anti-eugenics initiative that has been years in the making. Legacies...
A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict. The level...
Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics...
God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have...
Perspectives
Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...
“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...
Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...
Having data about our bodies tracked is so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget it...