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There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been in vogue for quite a few decades now. While IVF has been hailed as a significant scientific advancement, with many advantages, here are some limitations which bear keeping in mind...

A single cell.
A global business worth billions.
A trade that can bring rewards—or human costs that cannot be measured...

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

a graphic of crispr gene editing
By Sara Moretto, The Varsity | 09.22.2024

It was 2020. I was wrapping up grade nine science with a solid 60 per cent, hoping that if anyone...

Gene Therapy Illustration
By Don Sapatkin, Managed Healthcare Executive | 09.20.2024

Gene therapy comes with the expectation that it will “cure” an expanding number of genetic disorders. If you’ve never wondered...

Red Blood Cells
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.17.2024

For most of her life, Genesis Jones’s daily routine revolved around her illness, the painful blood disorder known as sickle-cell...

a graphic depicting preference for one set of DNA over another
By Gabby Del Valle, The Baffler | 09.17.2024

IT’S A COMMON STORY, banal, even: a child of privilege, an heir apparent, leaves for college to get a good...

the capitol building
By Deirdre Walsh , NPR | 09.17.2024

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to provide a nationwide right to IVF treatments. It was the second time Senate...

sickled red blood cells
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.16.2024

There was supposed to be a special party for Kendric Cromer, 12, last Wednesday, but it had to be postponed...

egg and scientist injecting it
By Matthew Rozsa, Salon | 09.15.2024

When a person with a uterus decides to freeze their eggs, any number of things can go wrong. Ice...

ivf
By Megan Agnew, The Times | 09.15.2024

Faith Hartley always wanted two girls — a blonde and a redhead. “I thought, I’ll have one that looks like...