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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
In the 1950s, Albert Sabin was searching for an improved polio vaccine. To that end, his lab infected the brains...
Natalia Molina was shocked when she heard a whistleblower's allegations about hysterectomies in ICE custody. But also, she wasn't...
Over the last 15 years, California’s stem cell agency has spent $2.7 billion on research ranging from arthritis and blindness...
It must seem odd that someone who has spent countless hours over the last 15 years as a member of...
In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
To the mothers, he was just Donor 9623. They did not know his name, but from his glowing sperm-donor profile...
When scientists set out to sequence the entire human genome in 1990, it was considered an undertaking on par with...
In 2004, California voters agreed to borrow $3 billion to bankroll a stem-cell research program dedicated to seeking cures for...