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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...

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...

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...