The first thing many people notice about Feng Zhang—nearly every article written about him acknowledges it—is his relative youth. At...
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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...
On June 7, news reports emerged that Valery Zukin, director of Nadiya Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Ukraine...
Human cells resist gene editing by turning on defenses against cancer, ceasing reproduction and sometimes dying, two teams of scientists...
A DNA test found that I’m 72.3% of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, thanks to ancestors from Ukraine. I expected as much...
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Erin Jackson did not learn that her biological father was a sperm donor until she was 35. Until then, her...
Guoping Feng applied to college the first year that Chinese universities reopened after the Cultural Revolution. It was 1977, and more...