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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 was 2004, and great medical breakthroughs were supposedly right around the corner.
In TV advertisements, celebrities Michael J...
HEBEI, North China — Even though Han Chunyu’s car was parked just outside his lab, the scientist wasn’t available to...
You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation—why should you have to wait nine months to...
In the beginning, there was nature. Then the statistician Francis Galton — Charles Darwin’s half-cousin — set nature (heredity) in...
In a few short years, the parents of a newborn will know the baby’s full genome — every last secret...
Genome-wide sequencing is increasingly being conducted on fetal tissues, either as whole exome sequencing (WES), whole genome sequencing (WGS), or...
Infertility treatment is an emotional and financial rollercoaster. For couples trying to conceive (“TTC” in the many on-line support forums)...
Dubbed “Snowbaby,” Emma Gibson is now more than a month old
Her birth made headlines globally recently as her 25-year-old...