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Technologies
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing — until he and other scientists used a ...
A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...
Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...
Policies
On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation...
As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it...
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine over the weekend said it would launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously...
With their sights set on winning control of Congress in November, Senate Democrats are reviving a legislative effort to dramatically...
Society
In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...
The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...
Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...
About 100,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in 2024, according to the most recent U.S. data. But IVF...
Perspectives
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...
Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...
Major news outlets recently reported – based on a bioRxiv preprint – that scientists had edited genes in human embryos...
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...