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When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they were ready to have children, she’d be willing to conceive using in vitro fertilization. Abraham had lost both his mother...

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IN 2013, A SERIES of ads about the dangers of teen pregnancy appeared on New York City subway trains. Sponsored by the city’s Human Resources Administration...

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

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The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...

egg freezing
By Anna Collinson, Maryam Ahmed and Bella McShane, BBC | 03.12.2024

Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a...

Artificial Intelligence graphic
By Billy Perrigo, TIME | 03.11.2024

The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which...

Chickens
By Carol Cardona and Michelle Kromm, Scientific American | 03.11.2024

Recently, a group of scientists announced a breakthrough approach to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu or avian flu)...

gene therapy
By Betsy McKay, The Wall Street Journal | 03.11.2024

Akintunde Odunsi is used to taking long, brisk walks. So he worried in 2021 when he started feeling so tired...

neural networks and AI graphic
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.10.2024

In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his...

petri dish in IVF process
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.08.2024

Scientists are a step closer to making IVF eggs from patients’ skin cells after adapting the procedure that created Dolly...

Human Genome
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.07.2024

A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major trove...

IVF Clinic
By Daniel Gilbert, The Washington Post | 03.07.2024

Vitaly Kushnir’s fertility clinic offers to screen an embryo to predict a baby’s sex, but the service can lead to...