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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...

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By Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo and Traci Watson, Nature | 11.08.2024

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance...

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By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharmaDive | 11.05.2024

A medicine built around a more precise form of CRISPR gene editing appeared to work as designed in its first...

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By Bill Newman and Demetra Georgiou, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

We were alarmed to read the findings of your investigation into an international network of “race science” activists seeking to...

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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

When Simone Collins, a Republican running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, and her husband, Malcolm, were privately asked...

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By Jennifer Denbow, Nursing Clio | 10.31.2024

Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party...

good and bad DNA
By Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, Psychology Today | 10.30.2024

In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolutionApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...

IVF
By Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times | 10.29.2024

SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...

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By Zeenat Beebeejaun, PET | 10.28.2024

Building on the 2016 BBC Panorama documentary 'Inside Britain's Fertility Business', which exposed the use of controversial fertility treatment add-ons...