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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The disappointing results of clinical trials will no longer be able to languish unpublished, thanks to rules released on 16...
No, scientists have not figured out how to make “motherless babies,” nor have they gotten any closer to making an...
Under Fujimori, thousands of indigenous women and men were sterilized against their will. Today, activists and organizations keep on fighting
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In a crowded auditorium at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in August, Philipp Messer, a population geneticist at...
The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police...
Investors hoping to buy into the vast, yet still unproven drugmaking potential of the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 will soon...
When I was pregnant with my first child, my ob-gyn referred me to a genetic counselor “just in case.”
I...
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday warned women and their doctors that current screening tests for ovarian cancer are...