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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...
Since the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth in 1978 more than 5 million babies have been born using this...
Solid scientific evidence can be crucial for solving crimes. But science may have been progressing too fast for...
The scientist who once fraudulently claimed to have created embryonic stem cells matched to human patients and the...
There’s a reason you can’t donate a kidney or bone marrow to just anybody. Each person’s immune system...
Britain is about to become the only country in the world to explicitly allow the inheritable genetic modification of humans...
Older women trying for a baby could soon be offered the IVF technique of so-called “three-parent” embryos that...
It may seem strange that an expert in cloning – the man who produced the first clones of...
April Gore wants to be a mother. She just doesn’t know when. But once she’s ready, the 28-year-old...