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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 Anna C. F. Lewis, STAT | 05.02.2022

Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not...

Australian Parliament buildign
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 04.29.2022

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Australia has become the second country after the United Kingdom to legalize a fertility procedure...

college lecture hall
By Tigerlily Hopson, Yale News | 04.29.2022

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According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus —...

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By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 04.27.2022

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China’s powerful State Council is calling on research...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.26.2022

Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation. Each month, one matures and...

Jennifer Doudna
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.26.2022

The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her...

Harvard locked gates
By Collin Binkley, The Columbian | 04.26.2022

BOSTON — Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to research and atone for its extensive ties with slavery...

test tubes holding sperm samples in a sperm bank
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 04.25.2022

After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men...