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Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
A plan to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Keys in 2021 and 2022 received final...
An article about women engineers, published in 1908, has a promising start: If women are attending technical schools and are...
For patients who’ve run out of other options, experimental, unproven therapies like stem cell treatments offer new hope. But how...
A Phase 1 trial testing a Poseida Therapeutics cell therapy in men with prostate cancer is on hold after a...
A new advisory board, created to review the ethics of proposed fetal tissue research grants, is urging the Trump administration...
The birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies, revealed in November 2018, prompted international shock and outrage. Working in...
On August 6, 2020 I gave a talk, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for the Future, a...
The argument seemed reasonable in theory: “We are pleased that our state values life no matter an individual’s potential disability...