
US Births Rise for First Time Since 2014; Black Women Saw Drop
The US saw the first increase in the number of births last year since 2014, after a pronounced drop during the shutdowns of the first...

COVID Vaccine Brings Long-Term Protection to Baby
Covid vaccine brings protection to baby

Genes are switched on in the human embryo at one-cell stage
The finding that some genes are active from the get-go challenges the textbook view that genes don't become active in human embryos until...

Cannabis impacts sperm count and motility in two generations of mice
An intense but short-term exposure to cannabis vapor lowered sperm counts and slowed sperm movement, or motility, not only in the...

The next frontier of human embryo research
Keeping human embryos alive in a dish is getting easier

The potential for lab-grown human embryos
Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. It was day 13 in a...

Study on COVID-19 Suggests Major Long-term Health Problems
In the largest long-term study of COVID-19 patients yet to be published, researchers in China report in the Lancet worrying results of...

Covid Vaccine Causing High Anxiety In Young Women
A week and a half after receiving the first dose of her Moderna vaccine, Kate Clancy, a professor of anthropology at the University of...