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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 Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 04.08.2014
CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology is attracting a growing cadre of devotees. In the past 18 months, over 125 papers on...
By Leslie A. Pray, Indian Defence | 04.08.2014
What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose...
By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.07.2014
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as...
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Nature | 04.07.2014
Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has...
By Leah Ceccarelli, The Seattle Times | 04.06.2014
In a televised speech introducing the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s TV series “Cosmos,” President...
By Catherine de Lange, The Guardian | 04.05.2014
Two days after Anne Morriss took her newborn son home from hospital, she received a bone-chilling phone call. The stranger...
By Stef dela Cruz, All Voices | 04.04.2014
“If the doctor of a former president gave you the assurance that your daughter will be cured of cancer after...
By Eloise Lynton, The Harvard Independent | 04.04.2014
Last summer, at my cousin’s baby shower, I sat in a room covered in pink from floor to ceiling. Pink...