News

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...

pregnancy test
By Madeleine Carlisle, TIME | 09.14.2021

When Emma Goidel was denied coverage for her fertility treatments in September 2020, she was furious. A 31-year-old writer in...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.13.2021

A team of scientists and entrepreneurs announced on Monday that they have started a new company to genetically resurrect the...

DNA inside of a dollar bill
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 09.13.2021

The folks in Orange Cove in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley care about the cost of health care. It is...

Earth wearing a face mask
By Jay S. Kaufman, The New York Times | 09.10.2021

In the winter of 1848, a 26-year-old Prussian pathologist named Rudolf Virchow was sent to investigate a typhus epidemic raging...

Uyghur man
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.09.2021

Two respected scientific journals have retracted two articles that relied on the DNA samples of Uyghurs in western China after...

Mammoth Biosciences logo
By Emma Betuel, TechCrunch | 09.09.2021

The CRISPR-based biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences is officially a unicorn, the company says. 

The billion-dollar valuation comes on the back...

Los Angeles police
By Sam Levin, The Guardian | 09.08.2021

The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they...

By Priyanka A. Chokhani, The Times of India | 09.02.2021

NEW DELHI: When the pandemic shut down their auto-parts supply business in Maharashtra last year, Sheetal pawned her gold jewellery...