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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 Kevin Doxzen, World Economic Forum | 10.18.2022

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Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can and should play a leading role in dictating the future of the world’s...

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By Nirit Sandman Eriksson, The Times of Israel | 10.14.2022

For generations, the Yu family of Shanghai has suffered from type 2 diabetes. But this summer, as reported in the...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2022
Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel
By John Kendall Hawkins, CounterPunch | 10.14.2022

Ken Burns’s recently released film, The US and the Holocaust, is, as anticipated, an excellent addition to his growing...

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By Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli, and Timnit Gebru, Noema | 10.13.2022

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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By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review | 10.13.2022

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In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”...

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By Roy Furchgott, The New York Times | 10.12.2022

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Sometimes the barrier to medical advancement isn’t in the science. It’s the money.

In 2003 the first full sequencing...

Eugenics Marker by North Carolina Highway
By Zari Taylor, The Daily Tar Heel | 10.11.2022

It’s been nearly four months since the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, triggering restrictions in...