In 2015, genes have many uses.
Soon after every baby in California is born, a hospital worker extracts and logs...
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By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025
This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.05.2015
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know...
By CBC, CBC News | 03.05.2015
A Dalhousie University professor is discouraging career-minded women from freezing their eggs for lifestyle reasons, a practice known as 'social...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.05.2015
Melissa and her husband started trying to have a baby right after they got married. But nothing was happening. So...
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.05.2015
T. Ryan Gregory’s lab at the University of Guelph in Ontario is a sort of genomic menagerie, stocked with creatures...
By Andrew Maynard, The Conversation | 03.04.2015
On July 31, 2012, a massive blackout swept across northeast India. At 1 pm local time, a power...
By Jeremy B. White, The Sacramento Bee | 03.04.2015
By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 03.03.2015
In a move that stunned the stem cell field, the first researcher to create cloned human cells—and to derive embryonic...
By Justine Drennan, Foreign Policy | 03.02.2015
When Thailand’s parliament passed a law banning most forms of surrogacy late last month, its main motivations were...