2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (189+ words) Eerily human-like embryo models are being crafted from stem cells in laboratories, raising ethical concerns'Genetic Literacy Project Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of the newest models are now…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1252+ words) People don't realize how much these clinics hold together the local health system until they're gone," said George Hill, the group's president and CEO. For thousands of patients, that was their doctor, their lab, and their lifeline." When you cut…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (192+ words) Cycle Tracking has become a trend on social media among the wellness community. Online influencers create content centered on syncing one's nutrition and workout routines with different phases of the menstrual cycle." These influencers often spread"debunked claims"that women…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (162+ words) The abortion pill mifepristone is one of the most politically contentious medications in America, one increasingly targeted by anti-abortion activists trying to limit its availability and championed by abortion rights supporters seeking greater access. Both sides have pressured the Food…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (172+ words) Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating or subsidizing insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, which they consider akin to abortion. President Donald Trump'unveiled policies'to lower the…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (234+ words) How does this process work? IVF is a fertility treatment where eggs are retrieved from ovaries, fertilized with sperm in a lab, and resulting embryos are transferred to the uterus. Embryo selection, often through preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), involves screening…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (528+ words) Researchers reviewed what countries are doing to regulate SCBEM and proposed what regulation should look like for this field of'stem cell research'to move forward in a manner that everyone can agree is ethically sound. They published their results in'EMBO Reports....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (181+ words) Trump has deployed in his administration and in his relationships with billionaires a group of the old and new eugenicists. Some of these leading men believe in a philosophy known as longtermism. For humanity to survive and spread itself across…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (173+ words) Orchid and other start-ups like it take embryos produced by IVF and subject those embryos to polygenic screening. This process produces a "risk score'an estimation of the probabilities that an individual person, once born, will suffer from conditions such as…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (166+ words) [D]espite [Noor] Siddiqui's efforts to cast herself as a modern-day Jonas Salk, [Orchid Health genetic screening services are] not a service available to "everyone's" babies'since the testing alone costs thousands of dollars in addition to the price of IVF…...