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Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. In fact, twentieth century eugenics represented the mainstream science of its day and...

Vitaly Kushnir’s fertility clinic offers to screen an embryo to predict a baby’s sex, but the service can lead to ethically murky territory, like when a couple wanted it so their first child could be a boy.

But the couple...

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

egg freezing graphic
By Eleanor Hayward and Joanna Crawford, The Times | 03.29.2024

Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...

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By Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...

sam altman at TechCrunch conference
By Hilary Brueck, Business Insider | 03.23.2024

"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...

Cameraman filming movie
By Jennifer Maas, Variety | 03.22.2024

We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...

Kidney surgery operating room
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.21.2024

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...

Gene therapy costs graphic
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.20.2024

There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...

Mexican Flag
By Carey Gillan, UnSpun | 03.18.2024

A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...

Gene wheel
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2024

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...