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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...
By the time Sarah Chamberlin’s fertility doctor declared her genes “incompatible” with her husband’s and said the clash might be...
For police officers around the country, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent...
A private DNA ancestry database that’s been used by police to catch criminals is a security risk from which a...
Joseph Vitti’s stomach turned when he opened a link an acquaintance had sent him. It took him to an app...
Moscow biologist and DNA specialist Denis Rebrikov has spent much of the past year kicking a scientific and ethical hornet's...
Two years ago, news headlines began to appear about a development that made many human geneticists uneasy. A U.S. company...
CRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and...