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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...
Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging...
“Scientists in general are awful at communicating their work to the general public,” says Jorgensen, the director of...
For the first time, scientists have discovered a mechanism in humans that could explain how your lifestyle choices may impact...
To help their soldiers on the front, Nazi physicians sawed off the limbs of concentration camp prisoners and...
The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in...
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole...
Fifty years ago, microbiologists sparked the recombinant-DNA revolution with the discovery that bacteria have innate immune systems based on restriction...
Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab...