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These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.
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Darius is 15 years old and is a dazzling example of how medical research...
In June a notice posted on the website of the journal Nature set a new scientific record. It withdrew what...
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Since the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade (see BioNews ...
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Biological models of human embryos that can develop heartbeats, spinal cords and other distinctive features will be governed by a ...
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Second only to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on when presidents are immune from...
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In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still...
CIRM, as the California stem cell agency is always called, is almost 20 years old, and seems to be in...
Society
Louise Perry’s recent article in The Spectator cautions against “The quiet return of eugenics,” a threat she locates in preimplantation...
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The dream of becoming parents is turning into a nightmare for hundreds of people...
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TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa jury recently found the now-defunct Lung Institute in...
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Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...
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As a toddler, Veronica Ayala loved Fridays...
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In 2012, the Elsevier journal Personality...