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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

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By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.22.2024

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...

Image of in vitro fertilization
By Editorial Staff, The Lancet | 07.20.2024

Image by DrKontogianniIVF from Wikimedia Commons

Despite major advances in securing sexual and reproductive rights globally, one aspect is continually...

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By Mesha Maren , Salon | 07.20.2024

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I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly...

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By Julia Black and Margaux MacColl, The Information [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.19.2024

When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...

Image of Galton's gravesite listing him as the "founder of eugenics."
By Aubrey Clayton, Los Angeles Review of Books | 07.18.2024

Image "Sir Francis Galton" by Spudgun67 from Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

IN 2013, A SERIES of ads...

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By Sarah Kliff and Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times | 07.15.2024

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

Millions of pregnant women get the pitch...

a graphic of a person removing a piece of a dna strand
By Alcott Wei, South China Morning Post | 07.13.2024

China has banned all clinical research involving germline genome editing under a newly released ethics guideline.

Germline gene engineering relates...

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By Staff, AP-NORC | 07.12.2024

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Most adults support protecting access to in...