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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 first time a doctor told me he had no idea what was wrong with me, I was six or...
In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access...
The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys.
The first brought hundreds of thousands of...
The Dutch government has announced it wants to allow growing human embryos “under strict and limited conditions” for scientific research...
Near the end of a wide-ranging conversation about the complexity of the human genome and the history and future of...
For many, many years we’ve been hearing about gene therapy – the chance that we can get into people’s DNA...
At the American Museum of Natural History, the venerable Science Talent Search announced Thursday that it was changing...
The biggest beneficiary of a plan to fabricate a human genome from scratch could be a Massachusetts startup called Gen9...