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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 Gregory Laub and Hannah Glaser, MedPage Today | 08.07.2025

In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California...

Drawing of mitochondrial DNA
By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Sydney Sweeney at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
By Tania Fabo, Newsweek | 08.06.2025

"Sydney Sweeney" by Jay Dixit, CC 4.0

American Eagle came under fire recently for an ad campaign featuring...

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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

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By Sayantani DasGupta, MedPage Today | 08.05.2025

It's just a jeans ad.

It's not that deep.

It's just social media outrage.

Should physicians care about the recent...

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By Katherine Long, Ben Foldy and Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal | 08.05.2025

ARCADIA, Calif.—In early May, after a baby was hospitalized with possible signs of child abuse, police showed up at a...

A robot contemplating code
By Cade Metz, The New York Times | 08.04.2025

Image by Mike MacKenzie / CC BY 2.0

In downtown Berkeley, an old hotel has become a temple to the...

Image of a wolf
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 08.04.2025

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA...