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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...
Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a...
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a Senate bill that protects sterilization victims receiving compensation payments from cutbacks in...
Out of four uterus transplants that were recently performed at a U.S. hospital, three were not successful, doctors announced today. What...
Boys conceived using an assisted reproductive technique in which sperm is injected directly into the egg have lower fertility than...
On Aug. 4, 1997, Jeanne Calment passed away in a nursing home in France. The Reaper comes for us all...
Drugs that use molecular scissors to snip out or replace defective genes. Altered mosquitoes meant to sabotage entire disease-carrying populations...
The 9-month-old patent battle over CRISPR, a novel genome-editing tool that could have immense commercial value, has taken two surprising...
For the last two decades, Indigenous peoples have consistently resisted genetics on local, national and international scales. Awareness of genetics...