News
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
Karina is six months pregnant, but the foetus inside her womb is not her own.
The 22-year-old from eastern Ukraine...
Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first person born with the help of in vitro...
On Dec. 7, 2023, the first night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, 51-year-old Sharon Eisenkot heard the knock on...
“Better babies.” “Fitter families.” “Survival of the fittest.” “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” These phrases are not merely historical...
More than a dozen Democratic senators are demanding that the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandon plans to...
The Australian Law Reform Commission is currently reviewing Australia’s surrogacy laws to ensure they’re fit for purpose and reflect the...
America is worried about fertility rates — again.
Coverage of the country’s declining birth rate reflects widespread unease: Families are...
“J. Craig Venter” via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 2.5
J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who...