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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...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Between 1929 and 1974, the state of North Carolina sterilized around 7,600 people whom it deemed unfit for parenting.
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“Scientism” is the belief that all we need to solve the world’s problems is, you guessed it, science. People sometimes...
In the febrile world of health startups, entrepreneurs are racing to quantify every possible bodily and environmental function. And so...
In 2005, Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes was browsing in the library at Sweden’s Uppsala University when she happened upon a...
In Geneva next month, officials will discuss updates to the global treaty that outlaws the use of biological weapons. The...
Dolly, the first animal to be cloned from an adult of its species, was born 20 years ago today at...
You may have heard that regulators in the United States are too strict when it comes to stem-cell treatments. If...