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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
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...
At least 30 children, most of them British, are feared to have been conceived by IVF treatment in northern Cyprus...
Society
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...
The deaths of two children who received CRISPR therapies in China have rattled scientists who work on similar genetic medicines...
Perspectives
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...
What We Inherit by Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko; and Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden have a great...