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A half-decade after a scientist’s reckless experiment with human embryos put a stop to much of China’s clinical work on...

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 Amy Yin always envisioned having at least two daughters. She spent her 20s working as an engineer and founding...

Not the species, certainly, but the Institute of that name, which was founded by transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2005...

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Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters...

Policies

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"New York City Hall" by Aude is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 DEED

New York City is denying...

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A sperm donor fathers more than 150 children. A cryobank misleads prospective parents about a donor’s stellar credentials and...

Group of protestors holding up signs protesting American immigration and border policies. Sign in middle says "Immigrants make America GREAT" in red and blue letters, and sign on the right says "NO HATE NO FEAR" on the first line and "Refugees are welcome here" on the second line.

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As radical as the contemporary GOP has become in recent years, it remains...

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It was one of the worst accidents in the history of reproductive medicine.

A storage tank at a San Francisco...

Society

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The political debate around access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) intensified this year,  following...

If you’re looking for a book where good triumphs over evil, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Cost...

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Pfizer has paused enrollment in a Phase III trial assessing its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy candidate fordadistrogene movaparvovec...

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Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an...

Perspectives

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“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”

Her voice came heavy through my headphones as...

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Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...

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We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...

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Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...

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