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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...
The November general election ballot includes two statewide propositions that address health issues. Proposition 14 asks voters to extend the...
The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and...
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...
WE ARE LIVING through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and...
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...
Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in...
Studies in animals, including one described recently in Wired, show that the gene manipulation technique CRISPR has a habit...