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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 year was 1984. I was finishing my medical genetics training at Yale, working on the molecular genetics of disorders...
Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier...
“Have you found an article of clothing with a suspicious stain?” asks the website of one Florida-based company called All...
Leslie Mitchell had no intention of doing a postdoc. After completing her PhD at the University of Ottawa, she had...
In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills gynecologist who ran a sperm...
In the summer of 2017, Julie Johnson saw a Facebook ad about egg donation. Somebody out there — an older...
I’m a doctor. I strive to fix things that are broken. Hearts, mostly. But my daughter Ruthie has forever changed...
Two years ago, detectives offered a 12-year-old boy they had arrested a McDonald’s soda during questioning. When the boy left...