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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...
The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade's recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again...
When I suffered my third consecutive miscarriage this past May, my mom said she wanted to help me...
MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Ann Lam delicately places a laboratory slide holding a slice of brain from a...
Turning 10 years old may not quite mark adolescence for a human child, but for a major government...
In Austen Heinz’s vision of the future, customers tinker with the genetic codes of plants and animals and...
Most cases of cancer are largely the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or inherited genes, new...
The year in biotechnology began with a landmark event. A decade after the first human genome was decoded...
Physics, chemistry, biology and the environmental sciences can deliver wonderful solutions to some of the challenges facing individuals and societies...