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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...

IVF Lab
By Liz Baker, Debbie Elliott, and Susanna Capelouto, NPR | 03.06.2024

The Alabama State Legislature passed a bill Wednesday night granting civil and criminal immunity for in vitro fertilization service providers...

DATA
By Juliet Kunkel, yes! | 03.04.2024
NEJM
By Paul A. Lombardo, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.02.2024

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...

DNA
By Manuel Ansede, El País | 03.01.2024

A team of Italian researchers has reached a major scientific milestone, heralding a revolution in the field of medicine. The...

Eugenics
By Anne Rumberger and Marcy Darnovsky, Science for the People | 02.29.2024

Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after...

Stem cells
By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian | 02.28.2024

Doctors say a man in California who contracted blood cancer while living with HIV is in remission from both potentially...

Genes
By Max Kozlov, Nature | 02.23.2024

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

IVF on microscopic level
By Mary Ziegler, Naomi Cahn, and Sonia Suter, MSNBC | 02.22.2024

This decision will affect the millions of people who become pregnant each year, their families, and their health care providers...