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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 a strand of DNA with tweezers removing a section
By Colin Baker, Al Jazeera | 04.11.2023

Two clinics sit adjacent to one another in a new hospital in a medium-sized city in the developed world.

In...

A close up model of how CRISPR is able to work
By Jia Jie Chen, BioSpace | 04.10.2023

 

Currently, there are no gene editing–based treatments on the market, but the technology continues its march toward potential FDA...

A zoomed in shot of a virus cell
By David Willman and Joby Warrrick, The Washington Post | 04.10.2023

BANGKOK — When the U.S. government was looking for help to scour Southeast Asia’s rainforests for exotic viruses, scientists from...

A zoomed in picture demonstrating the process of IVF
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 04.08.2023

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By...

An old poster depicting a group of women with the caption "stop forced sterilization"
By Deborah Hastings, Inside Edition | 04.06.2023

In eugenics practice dating back decades, California forced thousands to undergo forced sterilizations. Many were poor and people of color...

a macaque monkey with light brown fur facing the camera
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.06.2023

Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When...

A group of sperm cells moving toward an egg
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 04.05.2023

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 41-year-old Dutch musician, may have merely been doing a kind and generous act when he...

A vibrant rainbow is painted onto a road. Two feet wearing white shoes are situated at the bottom of the picture facing the rainbow
By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times | 04.04.2023

Photo by Carlos de Toro @carlosdetoro on Unsplash

MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...