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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...
Surrogacy is still big business in Shanghai despite a police raid on a major agency just a few months ago...
Horrible laws often follow major terrorist attacks. After 9/11, the U.S. Congress passed the Patriot Act. After the Charlie Hebdo...
Here’s another layer of confusion to add to the uncertainty of going through IVF. The type of liquid a...
Soon after she received the treatment, Karen Koehler’s brain swelled. Her blood pressure plummeted. As she fell into a coma...
This December, the signatory nations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will meet, as they do every five years, to...
At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what...
Harvard geneticist George Church is convinced everyone should have his or her genomes sequenced. Such tests would reveal the rare...
America's relationship with technology has always been marked by excitement with an undercurrent of unease. We’re exhilarated by the powers granted...