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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

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By David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 10.16.2024

An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has...

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By Emma Bubola, The New York Times | 10.16.2024

Photo of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from CPAC 2022 con Hermann Tertsch y Victor Gonzalez by Vox España licensed...

Genome and Data
By Helena Kudiabor, Nature | 10.14.2024

A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited...

Eugenics
By Daniel Vergano , Scientific American | 10.14.2024

Former president Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, has done at least one service to the cause of honesty. In...

Donald Trump
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times | 10.11.2024

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Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...

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By Ashleigh Wyss [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], Listnr | 10.09.2024

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

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By Jocelyn Kaiser , Science | 10.09.2024

Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...