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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 Center for Environmental Health, Center for Environmental Health [with CGS's Pete Shanks] | 03.17.2014
For just $99, genetic test company 23andme offered to test your DNA for everything from heart disease risk to your...
By Tim Alamenciak, The Star | 03.17.2014
Ontario’s police watchdog has launched a review of the DNA sampling practices of the Ontario Provincial Police after a complaint...
By Sabrina Tevernise, New York Times | 03.15.2014
BEAVERTON, ORE. — To most people, the word “mitochondria” is only dimly familiar, the answer to a test question in...
By Thomas H. Murray, Science | 03.14.2014
In February 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee met to consider...
By George J. Annas and Sherman Elias, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.13.2014
In August 2013, the genetic-testing company 23andMe began running a compelling national television commercial, in which attractive young people said...
By Jessica Cussins, RH Reality Check | 03.13.2014
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting in late February to consider experimental new techniques that would...
By Press Release, Care | 03.13.2014
New polling released by the charity CARE this morning supports the concern expressed by MPs yesterday afternoon that the Government...
By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker | 03.12.2014
Sometime in the summer of 1914, probably on September 1st but perhaps a few days earlier, the last passenger pigeon...