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The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and...
Every so often in Britain, eugenics is accused of making a comeback. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to...
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As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called...
The November general election ballot includes two statewide propositions that address health issues. Proposition 14 asks voters to extend the...
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...
WE ARE LIVING through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and...
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...
Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in...
If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...
JEFF JOHNSON WAS in a hurry. His lunch break was nearing its end, and he needed to catch the 6 train...