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There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been in vogue for quite a few decades now. While IVF has been hailed as a significant scientific advancement, with many advantages, here are some limitations which bear keeping in mind...

A single cell.
A global business worth billions.
A trade that can bring rewards—or human costs that cannot be measured...

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

dna dissolving into blue background
By Russ Burlingame, Comicbook | 07.23.2024

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, a biotech company that's putting together plans to orchestrate the de-extinction for animals like the dodo...

colorful strand of DNA on yellow background
By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.22.2024

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...

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By Editorial Staff, The Lancet | 07.20.2024

Image by DrKontogianniIVF from Wikimedia Commons

Despite major advances in securing sexual and reproductive rights globally, one aspect is continually...

Image of JD Vance giving a speech
By Mesha Maren , Salon | 07.20.2024

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I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly...

a graphic of a "superbaby"
By Julia Black and Margaux MacColl, The Information [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.19.2024

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

Image of Galton's gravesite listing him as the "founder of eugenics."
By Aubrey Clayton, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.18.2024

Image "Sir Francis Galton" by Spudgun67 from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

IN 2013, A SERIES of ads...

vials of blood with a yellow background case
By Sarah Kliff and Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times | 07.15.2024

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

Millions of pregnant women get the pitch...

a graphic of a person removing a piece of a dna strand
By Alcott Wei, South China Morning Post | 07.13.2024

China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.

Germline gene engineering relates...