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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...
A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty...
But insurance companies say it's unconstitutional.
On Wednesday night, Canadian parliament bucked the Prime Minister to pass a law that...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ report on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) was published last week, with a launch event in...
Scientists have taken another important step toward creating different types of synthetic life in the laboratory.
A bill that passed its first hurdle yesterday in Congress threatens to take away genetic privacy protections put in place...
Using stem cells in grown-on 3D scaffolding in a laboratory petri dish, scientists have for the first time created an...
Researchers allege undisclosed conflicts of interest on a National Academies of Sciences panel.
About a year ago, the prestigious National...
Typically, gene therapy involves combining a therapeutic gene with a vehicle known as a viral vector. This vector is used...