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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...

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...

Map of Ukraine
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 02.22.2024

In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology...

IVF Petrie Dish
By David Sable, STAT | 02.22.2024

Imagine having 15 miscarriages.

Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and keep trying to have children...

Fertility Clinic
By Azeen Ghorayshi and Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 02.22.2024

The bizarre episode was at the center of lawsuits filed by three families that eventually reached the Alabama Supreme Court...