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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 David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2013
The likely future of the $3 billion California stem cell agency was unveiled this week, and it envisions an enterprise...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.05.2013
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should refocus its oversight of gene-transfer research, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM)...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 12.05.2013
The crime lab technician mislabeled samples, using “the victim’s name instead of suspect’s name,” her evaluation said. Her supervisors disqualified...
By Nancy Shute, NPR | 12.04.2013
Drugs that help women become pregnant have replaced in vitro fertilization as the main culprit behind high-risk multiple births, according...
By Zaineb Mohammed, East Bay Express | 12.04.2013
If you could augment your body's abilities in any way imaginable, what would you do? When Oakland filmmaker Regan Brashear...
By David Dobbs, Aeon Magazine | 12.03.2013
A couple of years ago, at a massive conference of neuroscientists — 35,000 attendees, scores of sessions going at any...
By Gary Robbins, UT San Diego | 12.03.2013
A San Diego County woman has filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against 23andMe, alleging that the company knowingly misled...
By Robert Klitzman, Bloomberg | 12.03.2013
Over the past decade, we have heard about the “fat gene,” the “diabetes gene,” the “alcoholism gene,” the “intelligence gene,”...