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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...

drawing of three babies crawling with each reaching a higher level than the one before
By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian | 04.21.2023

Simone and Malcolm Collins are a thirtysomething couple with three kids called Torsten, Octavian and Titan Invictus. (They refuse to...

drawing of three human figures on pedestals with the one in the middle elevated above the others with a star above its head
By Paris Marx, Disconnect | 04.21.2023

Elon Musk has been warning about population decline and smaller families for years. In his 2015 biography, he’s quoted as...

A strand of double helix DNA
By Crystal Grant, ACLU | 04.19.2023

Newborn screening programs are a vital public health measure implemented in the U.S. and across the world, with about one...

sperm swimming under a fluorescent light
By Emma Bubola, The New York Times | 04.18.2023

The couple had dreams of a big family. They would have five children, who would have their father’s mop of...

a blond a pale skin sits in a diaper on the bed in a doctors office. A doctor with only his arm in frame puts a stethoscope to their back.
By Anna Merlan, Vice | 04.17.2023

For several years, parents of autistic children have paid between $10,000 and $15,000 to have their children undergo unproven stem...

A magnifying glass revealing the human genome from a DNA sequence
By Jane Clinton, Camden New Journal | 04.13.2023

The Cut + Paste exhibition is at The Crick

IF you had the chance to choose elements of yourself to...

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By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, ELSIhub | 04.12.2023

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Introduction

The development and use of an expanding range of medical technologies that yield...

macaque monkey
By Françoise Baylis, The Conversation | 04.12.2023

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first...