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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 Carina Cheng, Oliver Hu and Larissa Gao, NBC News | 09.04.2023

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Early this year, shortly after China lifted strict “zero-Covid” measures that had kept it...

money bags and DNA on green background
By James Tabery, Wired | 09.04.2023

You really can't understand all the excitement surrounding personalized medicine without knowing a little bit about Gleevec. And once you know...

He Jiankui delivering a speech
By Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker | 09.02.2023

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...

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By Sarah Marsh, The Guardian | 09.01.2023

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Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...

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By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 08.30.2023

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GM plant seedlings in test tubes
By Claire Robinson, GM Watch | 08.30.2023

Announcing the passing into law of the Genetic Technology Act, which removes regulatory safeguards around a whole subclass of GMOs...

Sketch of a robot face
By AFP, France24 | 08.28.2023

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction...