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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.03.2014
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...
By Adrienne Vogt, The Daily Beast | 03.03.2014
They’ve been called “baby factories,” conjuring up images of poor, illiterate women packed into bunks and forced by...
By Shu-Ching Jean Chen, Forbes | 03.03.2014
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.02.2014
A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 03.01.2014
New studies are suggesting that doctors need to be more cautious when they release genetic information to patients.
A recent...
A recent...
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.28.2014
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test...
By Patrick White, The Globe and Mail | 02.28.2014
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
Martin Luther King pioneered civil rights in America.
Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration...
Martin Luther King pioneered civil rights in America.
Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration...
By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 02.28.2014
A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that in California from 2009-2011...