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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 Lara Salahi, The Boston Globe | 01.29.2014
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has given about 5 percent of couples who suffer from infertility a shot at parenthood. But...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 01.29.2014
Here it is, 2014, and we have “Is the will to work out genetically determined?,” by Bruce Grierson...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.29.2014
A surprising study has found that a simple acid bath might turn cells in the body into stem cells that...
By Editorial, New Scientist | 01.29.2014
It didn't take long after Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 for maverick scientists to start talking about cloning...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.28.2014
The whistle-blower who played a key part in exposing the fraud of South Korean cloning specialist Woo Suk Hwang has...
By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 01.27.2014
On July 20, 2010, Andrew Alexander, founder and director of easyDNA, received a letter from the US Food and Drug...
By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 01.27.2014
SEQUENCING genomes has become easy.
Understanding them remains incredibly hard. While the trickle of
sequence information has turned into a...
By David DiSalvo, Forbes | 01.26.2014
By the middle of 2014, the prospect of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction...