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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...

Red and yellow poster stating: "Only healthy seed must be sown! Check the seeds of hereditary disease and unfitness by eugenics."
By Sheila Kaplan, UC Berkeley School of Public Health | 06.20.2024

Image by Gennie Stafford from Flickr

These days, it’s a rare scientist who would admit to working in eugenics.

The...

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By Dan Samorodnitsky, Kevin Bird, Jedidiah Carlson, James Lingford, Jon Phillips, Rebecca Sear, and Cathryn Townsend, STAT | 06.20.2024

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In 2012, the Elsevier journal Personality...

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By Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence | 06.18.2024

June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day, and to raise awareness about the condition, Wunmi Bakare and Dima Hendricks...

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By Ellie Kincaid, Retraction Watch | 06.18.2024

Nature has retracted a 2002 paper from the lab of Catherine Verfaillie purporting to show a type of adult stem...

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By Jason Wilson and Ali Winston, The Guardian | 06.16.2024

Multiple events hosted at a historic former hotel in Berkeley, California, have brought together people from intellectual movements popular at...

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By Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press | 06.15.2024

The mailings promised “Life Without Pain!” via stem cell injections or IVs administered in a patient’s own home. The allure...

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By Stephen Groves, Associated Press | 06.13.2024

Photo by Ajay Parthasarathy on Unsplash

Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to...

graphic of in vitro fertilization process
By Ruth Graham, The New York Times | 06.12.2024

Southern Baptists, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted on Wednesday to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization. The vote...