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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...

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By Charles M. Blow, Undark | 12.15.2022

n his 1940 essay “Dusk of Dawn,” the renowned scholar W.E.B. Du Bois reflected back to his early-career...

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By Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News | 12.15.2022

While the prospects of codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law face high hurdles, Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing...

genes in a syringe
By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 12.14.2022

In a landmark 1972 paper1, physician Theodore Friedmann and biochemist Richard Roblin foresaw a future in which DNA could be...

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By Jonathan Moens, Undark | 12.14.2022

In October of this year, police officials in Edmonton, Canada were struggling to solve a 2019 sexual assault case in...

cancer cells
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.13.2022

Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma...

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By Jenni Quilter, Slate | 12.13.2022

Most people understand in-vitro fertilization to be privilege for the wealthy, the well-insured, or those living in a country with...

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By Metro Tech Reporter, Metro | 12.13.2022

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This is the world’s first artificial womb facility – and it lets you choose...

a cartoon baby surrounded by dna
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.12.2022

The once-futuristic idea of sequencing every newborn child’s DNA to screen for genes that could shape their future health is...