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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...
The year is 2030. Gene therapy to insert the DNA sequence for dystrophin has been approved by regulators and is...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim two weeks ago that he had helped to make the first babies—twin girls—with edited...
It could have been anyone. It was so easy. But it was him. Junjiu Huang.
In 2015, Huang, a stem-cell...
How do you stop a mad scientist?
We’ve been doing it in fiction for centuries. Doctor Faustus was carried off...
In response to news of the world’s first babies born in China from gene-edited embryos, Sam Sternberg, a CRISPR/Cas9 researcher...
If you want to win a race or stick to a difficult diet, coaches of all kinds will tell you...
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing the government of violating constitutional privacy rights, a trio of civil liberties groups is suing the...
The California stem cell agency, state regulators and lawmakers are taking aim at the more than 100 dubious, unregulated "stem...