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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 Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 02.25.2014
Even Teru Wakayama, a co-author on the Nature reprogramming papers that stunned the stem cell world this month, says he...
By Alejandra Dubcovsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.24.2014
I love the sciences. Because my father was a scientist, I grew up surrounded by talk of running gels, western...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.23.2014
The California stem cell agency has put a little distance between it and its former chairman, Robert Klein, who is...
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 02.23.2014
An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is set to begin two days of meetings tomorrow to consider...
By Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian | 02.22.2014
It's hard to know where to start with Ray Kurzweil. With the fact that he takes 150 pills a day...
By Robert Klitzman, CNN | 02.22.2014
Editor's note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University...
By Noreen Moustafa, Aljazeera America | 02.21.2014
In this week’s episode of “TechKnow,” we highlight the latest advances in forensic technology that are helping law enforcement agencies...
By Stuart A. Newman, Huffington Post | 02.20.2014
In a public meeting scheduled for February 25-26, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will consider approval of experiments...