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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...
Patients seeking stem cell therapies for achy joints or shoulder injuries no longer need to hop a plane to Mexico...
Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up...
Jesse Gelsinger was 18 and healthy when he died in 1999 during a gene-therapy experiment. He had a condition called...
In biotech, your company is only as good as its intellectual property. And the Supreme Court on Monday left a...
When queried about the present state of biotechnology, Kevin Esvelt tends to sound more like a science skeptic than a...
New York University’s medical school has quietly shut down eight studies at its prominent psychiatric research center and parted...
The project to understand the human genome has long promised to revolutionise the way that diseases are diagnosed, drugs are...
It is tempting to provide an alarmist answer to this question. Yet it is wise to avoid the apocalyptic tone...