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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...
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can and should play a leading role in dictating the future of the world’s...
For generations, the Yu family of Shanghai has suffered from type 2 diabetes. But this summer, as reported in the...
This week I wrote about a fascinating experiment that involved implanting human brain cells into rats’ brains. The brain...
Ken Burns’s recently released film, The US and the Holocaust, is, as anticipated, an excellent addition to his growing...
The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and...
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In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”...
Sometimes the barrier to medical advancement isn’t in the science. It’s the money.
In 2003 the first full sequencing...
It’s been nearly four months since the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, triggering restrictions in...