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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...

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By Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 12.05.2022

The FDA has set out its reasons for putting Verve Therapeutics’ high cholesterol gene editing therapy on hold. Officials want...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.05.2022

Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received...

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By Daniella Silva, NBC News | 12.02.2022

A vote by San Francisco city supervisors in support of allowing police to use robots to kill people in emergency...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.29.2022

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison...

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By Kelsey Piper, Vox | 11.28.2022

In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is...

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By Amos Barshad, The Nation | 11.28.2022

In the fall of 2017, I sat in a windowless back room in O’Neill’s bar in the Maspeth neighborhood of...

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By Heather Radke, TIME | 11.26.2022

The first dressing room I remember was at Hudson’s, a Detroit-based department store where middle-class people in my town went...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2022

Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His...