This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents

Investors say genetic prediction services for embryos, used by Elon Musk and others, are a trust fund for future children. Many scientists are skeptical.

In the small Irish town of Tuam, Ireland, nearly 800 babies and young children disappeared — their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. Decades later, families are still searching for answers.

Cambria County investigators are planning to continue their search for the remains of five babies who were murdered in Gallitzin several decades ago.During a pr

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and been shunned by their families.

A study published this week in the international obstetrics and gynecology journal BJOG has raised concerns among women due to give birth in Australia's public hospitals.

The Trump administration is encouraging people to have more children, with baby bonuses and tax breaks. But some families who are practicing pronatalism want alternatives to hospital births.

The team identified more than 7,200 babies eligible to have received nirsevimab during its inaugural 2023-24 RSV season. But only about 2,500 got the vaccination, researchers found. Uptake ranged from 20% to 65% across practices.