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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...
Perhaps it started with the fortuneteller.
Though I’d spent my 32 years steering clear of all tarot card readers and...
Scientists have been altering the genes of mice, pigs, goats, chickens and butterflies for quite some time. But even as...
1 A whole new world
Biology is a way of structuring matter at a molecular scale by slotting each atom...
An anonymous incubator space just off the New Jersey Turnpike is the unlikely setting for Genomic Prediction, a genetic testing...
At 9:00 a.m. last December 14, a man in Orange County, California, discovered he’d been robbed. Someone had swiped his...
When Karina Vetrano was found beaten and strangled in a Queens park nearly three years ago, the New York Police...
On March 13, Nature published a call for a global moratorium on heritable human genome editing signed by several prominent...
Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime...