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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...

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By Miri (Margaret) Raven, Alana Gall, Bibi Barba, and Daniel Robinson, The Conversation | 06.02.2024

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Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World...

two bowls of rice, one white one golden
By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 06.02.2024

With the recent Philippines court decision blocking the further planting of GM Golden Rice in the country, pro-GMO advocates have...

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By Vardit Ravitsky and Louise King, Scientific American | 06.01.2024

Artificial wombs are moving from the realm of science fiction to possible trials with severely premature human babies. We...

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By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 05.31.2024

Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of...

a graphic showing lab grown egg and sperm
By Shelly Fan, Singularity Hub | 05.31.2024

We all know the drill for reproduction—sperm meets egg.

For the past decade, scientists have been pushing the boundaries of...

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By Liz Szabo, The New York Times | 05.29.2024

By the time Rena Barrow-Wells gave birth to her fourth baby in 2020, she was well-versed in caring for a...

Image shows the Indian flag, comprised of 3 colored stripes of orange, white and green from top to bottom with an emblem at the center of the middle white stripe, flying high with the sky as the background.
By Suraj Gogoi, News Laundry | 05.28.2024

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Despite the tremendous diversity of languages and cultures in India, we are all but...

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By Sara Luterman, The 19th News | 05.23.2024

Historically, the disability and reproductive rights movements have operated separately, “just ignoring each other,” as one advocate put it, as...