U.S. health officials are eliminating special regulations for gene therapy experiments, saying that what was once exotic science is quickly...
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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 our on-demand era of reproductive liberty and technology, a child’s sex isn’t always left up to chance. As more...
In 1884, at the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, four million punters came to view the latest scientific...
Facing criticism from fellow scientists, the researcher behind the world’s largest effort to edit human embryos with CRISPR is vowing...
A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. Although she died later that year, her...
Genetic-testing companies that have decoded the DNA of millions just introduced new guidelines to protect data privacy.
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