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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

A teal colored photo of IVF taking place
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post | 05.22.2023

Israel's Health Ministry wants to transfer responsibility for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) from private hospitals, which have several times been negligent...

pregnant woman
By Max G. Levy, Wired | 05.22.2023

IN A FUTURE when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier...

ivf fertility clinic
By Helen Pidd, The Guardian | 05.21.2023

England’s first not-for-profit fertility clinic has shut within a year of opening and has been sold to a private provider...

a light blue circle with 3 white icons. The bottom left has a test tube, the middle has a strand of DNA and the upper right has 5 people icons
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.19.2023

Antonio Vento is 13 years old. He’s a tiny figure in bandages who doesn’t walk and, until recently, couldn’t see...

several light blue strands of DNA floating over a dark blue background
By Robert F. Service, Science | 05.11.2023

Biologists who have been obtaining DNA sequences online from companies will soon have a more convenient option: benchtop machines that...

a genome of all the races
By Elie Dolgin, The New York Times | 05.10.2023

More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has...

ivf taking place in a Petrie dish
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 05.09.2023

The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure...

the california flag which shows a bear facing left on a patch of grass in a white background. The words CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC are underneath it in yellow and below that is a horizontal red stripe
By Phil Barber, The Press Democrat | 05.03.2023

On the final day of 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a program meant to soothe some of the harm...