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A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

black and white photo of a baby
By BBC, BBC | 02.21.2022

The Irish government has expedited plans for families with newborn surrogate babies to travel immediately from Ukraine.

It comes as...

President Biden's Cabinet members sitting in chairs and wearing masks
By H. Holden Thorp, Science | 02.18.2022

It has been a rough 2 weeks for the US science community. After 4 years of bludgeoning by the Trump...

Black mother holding a newborn baby
By Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 02.18.2022

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Penelope Marshall McCown struggled for years to have a baby.

She and...

Earth wearing a face mask
By Gregg Gonsalves, The New York Times | 02.17.2022

The early 1990s were in many ways the most terrible of those first years of the AIDS epidemic in America...

Blue surgical face mask
By Dipti S. Barot, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.16.2022

Photo by Kai Pilger on Unsplash

As the omicron surge wanes, and the experts read the sewage like tea leaves...

HIV particles (yellow) infecting host cell (blue)
By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times | 02.15.2022

Scanning electromicrograph of an
HIV-infected T cell. NIAID via wikimedia

A woman of mixed race appears to be the third...

Three disabled BIPOC strolling down a street
By Megan Buckles and Mia Ives-Rublee, Center for American Progress | 02.15.2022

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Studies show that people with disabilities are more likely than people without...

A "bubble baby" cured by this treatment
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 02.15.2022

Photo: CIRM

Twenty children seeking treatment for a rare affliction called the “bubble baby disease” today have some big-time, good...