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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

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By Matthew Cobb, Nature | 02.17.2025

On 24 February 1975, some 150 people met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds near Monterey on the Californian coast. They...

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By Katie Hasson, The New York Times Upfront | 02.17.2025

A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...

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By Ben Johnson, Nature | 02.14.2025

A London-based biotech has amassed the world’s largest ethically sourced foundational biodiversity database for training artificial intelligence (AI) by setting...

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By Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic | 02.14.2025

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For decades in the united states, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a...

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By Lily Hu, Los Angeles Review of Books | 02.13.2025

IN MAY 1921, the organizers of the Second International Congress of Eugenics assured the public that its conference, to be...

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By Nino Tarkhnishvili, Radio Free Europ | 02.13.2025

When Na, a Thai woman, saw a Facebook advertisement promising work as a surrogate mother in Georgia, it seemed almost...

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By Robin Fields, ProPublica | 02.12.2025

Vincent Gaynor remembers, almost to the minute, when he realized his part in birthing the breakthrough gene therapy Zolgensma had...