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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...

Image is the multi-colored sign of Google's logo at the top of a building, in which each letter alternates in color in the order of blue for G, red for o, yellow for o, blue for g, green for l, and red for e.
By Kylie Robison, The Verge | 05.23.2024

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Imagine this: you’ve carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a...

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By Ma’ayan Anafi, National Women's Law Center | 05.22.2024

Just under a century ago this May, the Supreme Court handed down an infamous ruling upholding a Virginia law that...

Image is a graphic of a vial with a red cap filled with blood, and a circle containing a zoom-in view of the blood inside the vial, which shows crescent-shaped blood cells indicative of sickle cell disease.
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Scientific American | 05.22.2024

Last fall, to great fanfare, US regulators approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, and the European Union...

sickle cell fertility graphic
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 05.21.2024

BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later, Whitney Carter’s mind kept flicking...

Image is a graphic of an individual holding a vial that is depicted to contain sperm, with a graphic right next to it showing this being recorded on a piece of paper.
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, NPR | 05.14.2024

JOHNSON COUNTY, Kansas — Ever since she was little, Sharla knew she wanted to be a mom. Sharla has...

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By Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School | 05.14.2024

At a glance: 

Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.14.2024

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When Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Bloomberg | 05.14.2024

Answers to our greatest questions, we were told about a decade ago, could be ours if we just spat in...