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The governor of Arizona has signed a sweeping anti-abortion bill prohibiting women from having abortions solely because their fetus has a genetic abnormality such as Down’s syndrome. Doctors may be charged with a crime if they perform abortions simply because the fetus has a hereditary condition that can be survived. …

Written [email protected] To help control the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved British Biotech company, Oxitec’s testing of genetically engineered mosquitoes for the first time ever in the United States. According to the Miami-Herald Newspaper, as early as this summer, millions of modified mosquitoes could be …