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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...
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the...
Since its invention, CRISPR has let scientists introduce DNA changes at specific locations in a genome. Often these precise changes...
When the journal Science chose the radical gene-editing technology CRISPR as its 2015 breakthrough of the year, the editorial team...
There’s an “urgent need” to create a transparent global registry that would list all experiments related to human genome editing...
We Are Egg Donors has been a long-time partner with Dr. Diane Tober, a medical anthropologist at UCSF who is...
The first Facebook message arrived when Heather Woock was packing for vacation, in August 2017. It was from a stranger claiming to...
To the Editor — The claim last November by He Jiankui to have engineered the first CRISPR-edited babies has ignited...