Topics
Technologies
It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain...
This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really...
Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s...
Policies
Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to...
Recently, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from stem cell clinics, which challenged the Food and Drug...
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Society
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric...
For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered...
Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her...
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want...
Perspectives
Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, MacArthur Genius, liberationist, storyteller, writer, and friend of CGS, died...
Egg freezing is one of today’s fastest-growing reproductive technologies. It's seen as a kind of 'fertility insurance' for the future...
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years as...