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Wealthy nations with low fertility rates have aging populations with decreasing numbers of working-age adults. Achieving economic growth and sustained living standards requires increasing fertility, productivity, immigration or increasing numbers of women entering the workforce, suggests Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as described by Vikram Khanna, associate...

Traditional medicines, once customized for each patient, are increasingly standardized and manufactured in large modern factories, for delivery around the globe. To expand markets, Chinese manufacturers are conducting clinical trials and putting their products under the review of the US Food and Drug Administration, considered among the world’s toughest regulators for drugs. “Although China...

Chinese researchers have cloned two macaque monkeys, using the technique that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 – somatic cell nuclear transfer. The research follows the 1999 cloning of a rhesus money in Oregon, using embryo splitting. Such studies could pave the way for human cloning. Monkeys and humans are primates which both form strong family and social bonds. A goal of the research in China is...