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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...
Doctors say they’ve helped an infertile woman become pregnant by combining her egg with that of a donor—another successful use of...
A Chinese researcher recently disrupted the CCR5 gene, which builds a protein that acts as an entryway that HIV uses...
He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who claimed to have edited the genomes of twin baby girls in a heritable way—and...
HONG KONG — A Chinese scientist who claimed to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies “seriously violated” state...
BENSALEM, Pa. — They call it the “magic box.” Its trick is speedy, nearly automated processing of DNA.
“It’s groundbreaking...
One set of identical twins, two different ancestry profiles.
At least that's the suggestion from one of the world's largest...
Despite the appearance of agreement, scientists are not of the same mind about the ethics and governance of human germline...
Nobel laureate James Watson has been stripped of honorary titles by the laboratory he once led after spewing more racist...