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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 Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.27.2024

Physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, has been a mainstay in the genome editing field for more than two decades. He...

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By Shivam Jadaun and Shivani, JURISTnews | 06.27.2024

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In some European Union nations, the forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still...

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By Jonathan D. Grinstein, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 06.26.2024

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Buried in a family...

Red and yellow poster stating: "Only healthy seed must be sown! Check the seeds of hereditary disease and unfitness by eugenics."
By Sheila Kaplan, UC Berkeley School of Public Health | 06.20.2024

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These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.

The...

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By Dan Samorodnitsky, Kevin Bird, Jedidiah Carlson, James Lingford, Jon Phillips, Rebecca Sear, and Cathryn Townsend, STAT | 06.20.2024

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In 2012, the Elsevier journal Personality...

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By Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence | 06.18.2024

June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day, and to raise awareness about the condition, Wunmi Bakare and Dima Hendricks...

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By Ellie Kincaid, Retraction Watch | 06.18.2024

Nature has retracted a 2002 paper from the lab of Catherine Verfaillie purporting to show a type of adult stem...