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Because the nation’s research enterprise is shrinking. Scientific funding is drying up. And the funds Congress recently ...

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow ...

Born out of the American tech sector, Preventive and Origin Genomics aim to advance the modification of embryo genomes. This ...

After 12 years of dating and one year of marriage, high-school sweethearts Samuel and Penelope started trying to conceive. Both grew up in tight-knit families, and had long dreamed of having ...

Antibiotic resistance is racing toward a global crisis, with “superbugs” projected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Now, scientists at UC San Diego have unveiled a powerful new CRISPR ...

Ms. Sussman, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author of the forthcoming book “Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty.” Raleigh Rivera and her husband had spent five ...

Get the latest on the science of healthy living in the NPR Health newsletter, sent weekly. Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes. "These are saliva ...