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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 Karen Weintraub, The New York Times | 12.16.2013
Alana Saarinen sat at the piano, playing smoothly and with feeling. Behind her, plastic toys shared floor space with a...
By The Times editorial board, The Los Angeles Times | 12.16.2013
The Supreme Court erred grievously this year when it permitted Maryland police to collect DNA samples from people who had...
By John Gillott, BioNews | 12.16.2013
The House of Commons Education Committee is currently investigating 'Underachievement in education of white working class children'. At a session...
By Russell Brandom, The Verge | 12.13.2013
How does a mother’s weight-loss surgery affect her child’s risk of obesity? It’s a question scientists have been struggling with...
By Steve Connor, Independent | 12.13.2013
Genes play a bigger role in educational achievement than teachers, schools or home environment, and the reason we know this...
By Science Daily, Science Daily | 12.12.2013
Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 12.12.2013
Doctors, researchers and companies should expect to find information they were not looking for in genetic analyses, imaging scans and...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2013
A plan to finance the California stem cell agency after its $3 billion runs out in 2017 was shunted aside...