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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...
Long before the claim of the world’s first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with...
It’s been two months since Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world with the announcement that his lab had created...
Chinese authorities confirmed last week that a scientist there is responsible for the first "gene editing" of human babies.
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In1961, A college student named David Myers traveled from Washington, DC, to the US Naval School of Aviation Medicine in Florida...
Scientists have long known what causes sickle-cell disease and its devastating effects: a single mutation in one errant gene...
In case you haven’t noticed, stem cell clinics are popping up everywhere. There are hundreds across the country, especially in...
Chinese researchers have cloned five gene-edited monkeys with a host of genetic disease symptoms, according to two scientific papers published...
A year ago, Dr. Matthew Porteus, a genetics researcher at Stanford, received an out-of-the-blue email from a young Chinese scientist...