WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...
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Technologies
A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited...
Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...
Reproductive rights have been a flashpoint in national politics for decades, with the stakes surging after the Supreme Court shredded...
Policies
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...
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It was...
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to provide a nationwide right to IVF treatments. It was the second time Senate...
Society
An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has...
Former president Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, has done at least one service to the cause of honesty. In...
“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore
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On October 7, Donald Trump’s long-standing...
IT’S A COMMON STORY, banal, even: a child of privilege, an heir apparent, leaves for college to get a good...
Perspectives
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Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...
It was 2020. I was wrapping up grade nine science with a solid 60 per cent, hoping that if anyone...
Gene therapy comes with the expectation that it will “cure” an expanding number of genetic disorders. If you’ve never wondered...