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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...
A simple blood test to detect early signs of cancer. A noninvasive way to screen pregnancies for common...
Molecule by molecule, the transformational genome-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9 is getting so many upgrades so quickly it’s like...
On August 17, 1920, the Topeka Daily Capital reported an exciting development: a new class of competition had been added...
A same-sex couple have won a legal battle in Thailand against the surrogate mother who gave birth to...
In a world with porous borders and wildly divergent surrogacy laws, making a baby can be a global...
According to a recent article in the popular press, a California based biotech firm, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, has...
Last year, Elizabeth Parrish, the CEO of Seattle-based biotech firm BioViva, hopped a plane to Colombia, where she...
For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public...