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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...
“I think I got it,” says Alekos Simoni with a grin, returning an electronic fly zapper called “The Executioner” to...
Millions of amateur genealogists assembling family trees on Ancestry.com probably figure they’re just finding lost relatives and assessing their genetic...
At the end of this month, the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in Hong Kong...
The other day, Ancestry.com told me that my mother was my mother.
Phew.
I was starting to wonder about some...
In Burkina Faso, the government is considering the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate malaria. In Nantucket, Mass., officials...
LONDON—In the first attempt of its kind, researchers plan to sequence all known species of eukaryotic life—66,000 species of...
