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When Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for developing in vitro fertilization (IVF) decades earlier in 1978, many members of the scientific community sighed in relief. This honor, they felt, was long...

Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a Hollywood movie.

Now, new A.I. technology is generating blueprints for microscopic biological mechanisms that...

Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an...

A sperm donor fathers more than 150 children. A cryobank misleads prospective parents about a donor’s stellar credentials and...

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By Staff, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.06.2024

Results from a small clinical study suggest that EDIT-101, a CRISPR-based gene editing therapy for an inherited form of Leber’s...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.06.2024

On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with...

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By Lauren Quinn, Hazlitt | 05.01.2024

“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”

Her voice came heavy through my headphones as...

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By William Schulz, The Boston Globe | 05.01.2024

Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash

Boxes of old family photos, letters, and other memorabilia have been sitting in my...

Group of protestors holding up signs protesting American immigration and border policies. Sign in middle says "Immigrants make America GREAT" in red and blue letters, and sign on the right says "NO HATE NO FEAR" on the first line and "Refugees are welcome here" on the second line.
By Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic | 05.01.2024

Photo by Nitish Meena on Unsplash 

As radical as the contemporary GOP has become in recent years, it remains...

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By Gaby Del Valle, Politico | 04.28.2024

Photo by Rob Curran from Unsplash

The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will...

person in lab coat looks into a microscope next to large image of egg and sperm
By Lenny Bernstein and Yeganeh Torbati, The Washington Post | 04.28.2024

It was one of the worst accidents in the history of reproductive medicine.

A storage tank at a San Francisco...

the logo of the Future of Humanity Institute with a red "X" superimposed
By Andrew Anthony, The Guardian | 04.28.2024

Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford...

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