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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Poring over a list of the top 50 US philanthropists in 2014, physicist Marc Kastner noticed that 16 were based...
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Field Note Excerpt I: By Invitation Only
Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), May 10, 2016.
Anticipation was in the...
A mutation in a single DNA letter causes a painful and debilitating disease known as sickle-cell anaemia. Researchers have wrestled...
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President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a Senate bill that protects sterilization victims receiving compensation payments from cutbacks in...