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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...
In 2016, after seven years trying to conceive, New York state assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte was pregnant with twins...
A scientist in China announced this week that he had created the world's first genetically-edited human babies. In an announcement...
We said “don’t freak out,” when scientists first used Crispr to edit DNA in non-viable human embryos. When...
Who has the authority to say yes or no to gene-modified babies?
In the mind of He Jiankui, the answer...
Sooner or later it was bound to happen: A rogue scientist in China claims to have edited a gene in...
The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...
Designer babies might be here sooner than anyone reckoned. A Chinese researcher who says he created gene-edited babies crossed what...
HONG KONG — A Chinese scientist’s claim that he used the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the DNA of...