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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...
Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...
The condemnation of the Chinese scientist who created the world’s first genome-edited babies last year was far from universal: A...
Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a...
The U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the Royal Society of the...
WHEN CHINESE scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live...
As morbid as it sounds, life insurance companies want to know how long you’ll be around, and figuring that out...
In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk...
While it’s fun to submit DNA to a testing service to learn you might be 10 percent Nigerian, Norwegian, or...