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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 Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | 04.01.2014
Just hours after Japanese investigators announced findings of fabrication and misconduct in a highly criticized "acid bath" stem cell study...
By GEN, Genetic Engineering News | 03.31.2014
MIT scientists report the use of a CRISPR methodology to cure mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a...
By Teddy Wilson, RH Reality Check | 03.31.2014
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill Wednesday to punish any physician in the state who is found to...
By David Dodge, The New York Times | 03.31.2014
“But … I’m so short!”
This, unfortunately, will always be the first phrase out of my mouth after my good...
This, unfortunately, will always be the first phrase out of my mouth after my good...
By Christopher Mims, Quartz | 03.29.2014
A pair of advocates—they do legitimate research too, but their ardor is so intense, it’s hard to call them scientists—believe...
By Gregory E. Kaebnick, Bioethics Forum | 03.28.2014
A team of scientists announced this week that it had successfully created one of the sixteen chromosomes found in yeast...
By Raquel Cool, We Are Egg Donors | 03.28.2014
Let’s talk about stigma for a second.
A year ago, we started We are Egg Donors as an advocacy and...
By Emily Dugan, The Independent | 03.27.2014
Record numbers of lesbian couples are becoming parents through fertility treatment, official figures show. The number of two-mum families jumped...