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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 The Economist, The Economist | 02.08.2014
IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea...
By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.07.2014
Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics has settled one of a number of lawsuits over gene-related patents it filed against competitors...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
Many of the stem cell lines used by academics and registered with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) would...
By Ron Synovitz and Zamira Eshanova, The Atlantic | 02.06.2014
The idea of using genetic testing to spot future world-class athletes has been bandied about for years. Now, Uzbekistan hopes...
By Tony Dokoupil, NBC News | 02.06.2014
Days before she ended her pregnancy, Joselin Linder was thrilled to imagine herself as a parent. She was 37, newly-married...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week (February 4) that culturing a patient’s stem cells for therapeutic use...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014
In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...
By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 02.05.2014
LONDON – “Your genetic information should be controlled by you,” declares an advertisement for the American direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic-testing firm...