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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 Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

TreVaughn Roach-Carter had been waiting to donate his sperm for nearly two years in early 2020 when he visited the...

a black mother holding her baby
By Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

Every night a little after 1 a.m., following her shift as a guard at a women’s prison, Reese Brooks...

an IVF embryo
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 10.19.2022

When Sarka Lisonkova and her colleagues set out to study disparities in the birth outcomes of people who’ve used methods...

A person in an electric wheelchair
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.19.2022

For a quarter of a century, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard, has heard the same story...

an image of a DNA double helix on a blue background
By McKenzie Prillaman, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

Nadine Caron was horrified by...

the building entrance reading "Imperial College London" with blue sky and clouds in the background
By Philip Ball, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

In February, the nineteenth-century naturalist...

a close up of a 3-D landscape of the human genome
By Jedidiah Carlson, Brenna M. Henn, Dana R. Al-Hindi, and Sohini Ramachandran, Nature | 10.19.2022

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Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

Earlier this year, we...

a newborn being laid down
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 10.18.2022

Lorne and Jaclyn Rembach could have had kids without any medical intervention. They were in their early thirties and fertile...