Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos
Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God? ..
Those using IVF can see which embryo is least likely to develop cancer and other diseases. But can protecting your child slip into playing God? ..
The national right to abortion pushed back the age of childbearing, increased college and workforce participation, and created economically stable families. ..
Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group. ..
Over 100 million women are estimated to use oral contraceptives, but studies on the pill’s mental health effects raise more questions than answers. ..
Mucus keeps the microbiome healthy. Now scientists have clues about how it stops good microbes from going bad. ..
British Columbia’s three-year trial aims to address its opioid crisis. The legislation has been welcomed, but some think it’s still too conservative. ..
The country’s recent heat wave has seen “wet bulb” temperatures rise to potentially fatal levels—but plans to handle the crisis are still in their ..
The national abortion debate has focused on its legal and political dimensions. But that ignores the physiology of pregnancy. ..
A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t. ..
Instead of deleting genes, epigenetic editing modulates their activity. A new paper tests if it’s able to undo a genetic effect of early alcohol exposure. ..