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Gray wolf by Jessica Eirich via Unsplash

“I’m not a scarcity guy, I’m an abundance guy”
– Colossal co-founder and CEO...

DNA strands

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo.

In...

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China's most infamous scientist is attempting a comeback. He Jiankui, who...

This article was originally published as “Soziogenomik und polygene Scores” in issue 272 (February 2025) of the German-language journal Gen-ethischer...

Policies

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Promotional image from Natalism.org

A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, Sean Duffy, the newly appointed secretary of the...

fertility clinic

A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in...

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A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of...

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WASHINGTON — Keith Joung knows better than a lot of people what, exactly, it might require to prove to regulators...

Society

A Review of Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them by Diane M. Tober

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"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0

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From the Natalism website

Elon Musk may not have appeared at the Natal Conference in Austin, Texas, this year, but...

Elon Musk

Image "Elon Musk" by Debbie Rowe on Wikimedia Commons
licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

Ashley St. Clair wanted to...

Perspectives

Promise and Peril of CRISPR cover

"The Promise and Peril of CRISPR" cover by Johns Hopkins University Press

As a paediatrician taking care of children with...

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Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we...

selection of embryos

After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization...