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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...

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By Daisy Dumas, The Guardian | 02.01.2024

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene...

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 01.31.2024

The rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between...

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By Greg Allen, NPR | 01.26.2024

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. 

At least 700,000 people...

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By Morenike Samuel, Sapiens | 01.25.2024

“DON’T PLAY WITH HER! SHE HAS SICKLE CELL”

On a sunny day in Southern Nigeria, my uncle and aunt took...

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By Ken Dilanian, NBC News | 01.25.2024

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Bipartisan legislation was introduced in...

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By Laura Ungar, Time | 01.25.2024

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Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.

A small...

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By Dyani Lewis, Nature | 01.24.2024

Yves Moreau thought something was amiss when he came across a genetics paper about Tibetans in China. In the 2022...

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By Lizzie Wade, Science | 01.23.2024

For nearly 2 centuries, the skulls of 20 Black people who died in Philadelphia have formed part of the Morton...