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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...
The tide is turning for the fallen star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who transplanted numerous patients with lethal tracheas made...
A Swedish medical researcher has taken another step toward eventually being able to engineer a custom-made human being. The experiment, ...
Not now, certainly, but maybe someday—although there are plenty of hurdles to overcome first
A letter was recently published in Nature ...
Agriculture giant Monsanto has licensed CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology from the Broad Institute for use in seed development, the company announced on...
A Kuwaiti lawyer has filed a formal constitutional challenge to his country’s controversial mandatory DNA law, which is reportedly set...
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A scientist in Sweden has started trying...
China is looking for quality sperm. Ever since the nation loosened its one-child family-planning policy earlier this year, its sperm...
Geneticist George Church has pioneered methods for sequencing and altering genomes. He has been called a founding father of synthetic...