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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...
THERE wasn’t much to being an anonymous sperm donor in the 1970s and ‘80s. You showed up, signed...
Researchers often complain about inaccurate science stories in the popular press, but few air their grievances in a...
Among all the forensic tools available to criminal investigators, DNA analysis is the only one that has consistently produced reliable...
In 2013, some 200 million humans suffered from malaria, and an estimated 584,000 of them died, 90 percent in Africa...
Imagine you’re a veteran who was critically wounded while serving your country. You’ve returned home, struggled through rehab, and now...
The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...
23andMe bills itself as a company that “democratizes personal genetics” for the world. And that description’s not necessarily all that...
Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers is a compelling tale of surrogacy and late parenthood.
Set in...