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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...
More than a decade ago, Californians made a $3 billion wager on the healing potential of stem cell research.
Today...
Josiah Zayner is the kind of citizen scientist whom journalists like to write about. He left his job as a...
Is it reasonable to hope that concerns about “cultural harms” can be integrated into oversight mechanisms for technologies like gene...
Of all the provisions of the Affordable Care Act—“Obamacare,” if you’re on a first-name basis—the one that seemed...
This week I feel ashamed. This newspaper has published evidence of widespread bad practice in my own medical speciality, infertility...
Fertility clinics are today accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to donate eggs for cash and free treatment...
Is that something we’re comfortable with?
Sure, the U.S. military has deployed the power of biology and nature before. For...
GlaxoSmithKline says it has treated a child with Strimvelis, its gene therapy for immune deficiency.
A child in Europe has...