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Over a million frozen embryos are left in limbo. Should they be donated?

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Higher IVF success rates mean more embryos are being left unused—and more families wrestling with questions about what to do ...
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Making eggs without ovaries: How skin-based egg cells could transform human reproduction

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Matt Krisiloff, chief executive officer of Conception Biosciences, has dozens of scientists working at a lab in Berkeley, Calif., trying ...
What makes kin? DNA testing unlocks the remarkable story of a woman with three fathers

What makes kin? DNA testing unlocks remarkable story of a woman with three fathers

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DNA tests are uncovering a generation of biological fathers and half-siblings who stretch the bounds of what makes kin ...
Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials

Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials

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The Food and Drug Administration is devising plans to allow clinical trials testing the transplantation of pig organs into humans, ...
FDA ban on sperm donations by gay and bisexual men is loosening

FDA ban on sperm donations by gay and bisexual men is loosening

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After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men ...
There’s a nationwide shortage of Black sperm donors. Here’s why

There’s a nationwide shortage of Black sperm donors. Here’s why

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There has been a shortage of Black sperm donors and all donors of color for years, industry experts said. The ...
China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness

China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness

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One fallout from the conflict over the origin of the pandemic is less scientific collaboration and more mistrust between two ...
Over the next decade, CRISPR and other forms of gene editing could help people with rare disorders — and millions more with heart disease, diabetes, and chronic pain

Over the next decade, CRISPR and other forms of gene editing could help people with rare disorders — and millions more with heart disease, diabetes, and chronic pain

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In the next decade, Crispr-Cas9 and other new gene-editing techniques may protect the health [of] millions of people with a ...
Genetic genealogy leader 23andMe going public. What will that mean for your data?

Genetic genealogy leader 23andMe going public. What will that mean for your data?

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California-based 23andMe will merge with Virgin Group’s VG Acquisition Corp and raise a further $250 million from new investors, [British ...
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Superdonors: Recovered COVID patients with high antibody levels in demand by blood banks and researchers

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There is new determination in the search for high-antibody plasma because under FDA guidelines issued earlier this month, all donated ...
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Population health vs personalized medicine? Coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of multiple approaches

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“If we are to advance health care in the United States, where is the dollar best spent? Is it spent ...
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Infographic: Racing to create affordable at-home test for COVID-19

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To stretch beyond the lab, test developers are racing to produce next-stage technologies that could allow for rapid widespread testing ...
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‘Fragments of dead virus’ preventing recovered coronavirus patients from donating plasma

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Close to four weeks after recovering from a Covid-19 infection, Jennie Novakovic went to her local hospital hoping to donate ...
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When a consumer genetics test pushes your ‘right to know’ against someone else’s ‘right to privacy’

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Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children ...
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BRCA nightmare: Genetic testing analysis changes—after preventive surgery

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When she was in her early 30s, Katy Mathes decided to check her cancer risk. A genetic test showed a ...
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FamilyTreeDNA shares customers’ genetic data with FBI. Founder calls it ‘the right decision’

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Millions of consumers use genetic data to gain insight into family roots or learn about health risks. The boom has ...
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What’s the difference between choosing healthy embryos and picking a baby’s eye color?

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Blair and James are trying to start a family. Like many parents, they hope their future offspring will be healthy ...
'Will people eat it?': The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

‘Will people eat it?’: The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

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Zachary Lippman, a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, stood among 2 acres of his experimental crops, including some ...
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Friendlier regulations fuel China’s lead in human gene-editing race

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In a hospital west of Shanghai, Wu Shixiu since March has been trying to treat cancer patients using a promising ...
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DIY home gene editing is all the rage: Here are the promises and pitfalls

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Kian Sadeghi has postponed homework assignments, sports practice and all the other demands of being a 17-year-old high-school junior...On a ...
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Life in genetic limbo: You’ve got the gene but, so far, no disorder

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Genetic testing is teaching some people they have the genetic markers of disease, but no symptoms yet. Neither patients nor ...

A community’s twist on genetic tests

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In Williamsburg, a bustling Brooklyn enclave across the East River from Manhattan, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews dresses in garb ...
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As gene mapping nears $1,000, will it improve our health?

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The cost of mapping a person's full genetic profile has been dropping quickly. Now, doctors are struggling with a new ...
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