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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola player from Chongqing, China, a lover of science fiction, and an aspiring member of the US Army Reserve Officer Training...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation...

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...

IVF graphics with dollar sign
By Edward Chen, Nature | 07.28.2026

A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...

gene editing
By John Travis , Science | 07.27.2026

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine over the weekend said it would launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously...

stop forced sterilization
By Lillian Kollross , Ms. Magazine | 07.25.2026

In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...

kidney transplant
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.23.2026

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...

DNA dissolving
By Brendan Borrell, Science | 07.23.2026

The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...

IVF
By Julianne McShane, MS NOW | 07.23.2026

With their sights set on winning control of Congress in November, Senate Democrats are reviving a legislative effort to dramatically...

gene therapy graphic on purple background
By Gina Kolata , The New York Times | 07.21.2026

Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...

DNA strand
By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, The New York Times | 07.20.2026

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...