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Paula Amato & Shoukhrat Mitalipov
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On September 30th, a team of 21 scientists from Oregon Health & Science...
Before dawn on a March morning, Doug Whitney walked into a medical center 2,000 miles from home, about to transform...
DNA is the molecule of life: this double-helix structure, present in every cell in the body and organized into fragments...
MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she...
Society
Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins.
At the...
AnnaMaria Gallozzi and her husband wanted to have a second child last year. Because Gallozzi has advanced breast cancer, the...
The Internet philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky has been predicting the end of the world for decades. In 1996, he confidently declared...
Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges...
Perspectives
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...
When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...
Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...