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Technologies
One of the greatest scandals in modern science began with a late-2010s advertisement for HIV-positive couples looking to have children...
A “small strand of blood in the poop.” This was the first sign, initially viewed as unimportant, that put Jesús...
A London-based biotech has amassed the world’s largest ethically sourced foundational biodiversity database for training artificial intelligence (AI) by setting...
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In June 1971, Robert Pollack, a young researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, phoned...
Policies
California scientists took what looked like an $800 million hit last week in their efforts to develop revolutionary treatments and...
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For decades in the united states, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a...
When Na, a Thai woman, saw a Facebook advertisement promising work as a surrogate mother in Georgia, it seemed almost...
Society
President Trump scored a bunch of generally favorable mainstream headlines recently by announcing that he was ordering expanded access to...
In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy...
Pfizer is pulling further away from the gene therapy field with its decision to discontinue hemophilia product Beqvez.
The New...
Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said...
Perspectives
This month’s gene therapy news includes celebrations of promising new developments running beside gloomy takes on the future of the...
Three Thai women have been rescued from a human egg trafficking operation in Georgia, run by a Chinese human trafficking...
On 24 February 1975, some 150 people met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds near Monterey on the Californian coast. They...
A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...