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IN THE Operation Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, 50 wealthy parents were charged with trying to get their children into elite universities through fraudulent means. The story dramatically demonstrated the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure their...

The gene-editing tool CRISPR enabled a groundbreaking new treatment for sickle-cell disease, and in the future, scientists anticipate that it could be used to tackle cancer, forms of inherited blindness, various superbug infections and even HIV...

There was immediate backlash when Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos created through in vitro fertilization qualified as...

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

A close up model of how CRISPR is able to work
By Jia Jie Chen, BioSpace | 04.10.2023

 

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

A zoomed in shot of a virus cell
By David Willman and Joby Warrrick, The Washington Post | 04.10.2023

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

A zoomed in picture demonstrating the process of IVF
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 04.08.2023

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...

An old poster depicting a group of women with the caption "stop forced sterilization"
By Deborah Hastings, Inside Edition | 04.06.2023

In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...

a macaque monkey with light brown fur facing the camera
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.06.2023

Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...

A group of sperm cells moving toward an egg
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 04.05.2023

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 41-year-old Dutch musician, may have merely been doing a kind and generous act when he...

A vibrant rainbow is painted onto a road. Two feet wearing white shoes are situated at the bottom of the picture facing the rainbow
By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times | 04.04.2023

Photo by Carlos de Toro @carlosdetoro on Unsplash

MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...

a law textbook and a gavel on a grey background
By Zoe Beketova, Progress Educational Trust | 04.03.2023

The Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales have published proposals to reform UK surrogacy law.

Their joint report...