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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 Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 11.20.2013
The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2013
In recent years, DNA variants in two different genes have been linked to how much blood thinner a patient needs...
By Dr Stuart Hogarth, BioNews | 11.18.2013
Last week saw the launch of the UK arm of the Personal Genome Project (PGP). This is the second major...
By Bruno Waterfield, Telegraph | 11.17.2013
Belgium needs a universal DNA database to fight crime with samples to be taken from every newborn baby or foreigner...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 11.17.2013
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist, is looking for a new world to conquer —...
By Shelby Capacio, Fox 9 | 11.17.2013
A petition drive is under way, calling on Gov. Mark Dayton to order an investigation of the University of Minnesota...
By Joshua Keating, Slate | 11.15.2013
Give the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee credit for unpredictability. All the signals sent out before this week’s highly-anticipated third...
By William A. Schambra, The New Atlantis | 11.15.2013
Philanthropy has many wonderful qualities — and never tires of proclaiming them, for one quality it sorely lacks is humility...