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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 Liz Szabo, The New York Times | 05.29.2024

By the time Rena Barrow-Wells gave birth to her fourth baby in 2020, she was well-versed in caring for a...

Image shows the Indian flag, comprised of 3 colored stripes of orange, white and green from top to bottom with an emblem at the center of the middle white stripe, flying high with the sky as the background.
By Suraj Gogoi, News Laundry | 05.28.2024

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Despite the tremendous diversity of languages and cultures in India, we are all but...

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By Sara Luterman, The 19th News | 05.23.2024

Historically, the disability and reproductive rights movements have operated separately, “just ignoring each other,” as one advocate put it, as...

Image is the multi-colored sign of Google's logo at the top of a building, in which each letter alternates in color in the order of blue for G, red for o, yellow for o, blue for g, green for l, and red for e.
By Kylie Robison, The Verge | 05.23.2024

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Imagine this: you’ve carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a...

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By Ma’ayan Anafi, National Women's Law Center | 05.22.2024

Just under a century ago this May, the Supreme Court handed down an infamous ruling upholding a Virginia law that...

Image is a graphic of a vial with a red cap filled with blood, and a circle containing a zoom-in view of the blood inside the vial, which shows crescent-shaped blood cells indicative of sickle cell disease.
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Scientific American | 05.22.2024

Last fall, to great fanfare, US regulators approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, and the European Union...

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By Eric Boodman, STAT | 05.21.2024

BATON ROUGE, La. — The surgery was supposed to alleviate worry, but now, years later, Whitney Carter’s mind kept flicking...

Image is a graphic of an individual holding a vial that is depicted to contain sperm, with a graphic right next to it showing this being recorded on a piece of paper.
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, NPR | 05.14.2024

JOHNSON COUNTY, Kansas — Ever since she was little, Sharla knew she wanted to be a mom. Sharla has...