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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...
During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, ...
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...
Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation...
Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team...
Birthrates in much of the developed world are at record lows, but there’s one demographic group that’s exploring new frontiers...
A research program at the National Institutes of Health released the world’s largest database of human genomes and paired them...
In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a...