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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 Erica E. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal | 09.23.2013
Law-enforcement agencies in many places routinely take DNA samples from people convicted of murder and other violent crimes. But here...
By James McCarthy, Wales Online | 09.22.2013
A one-year-old baby is among thousands of children who have had their DNA taken by police officers in Wales.
A...
By The Economist, The Economist | 09.21.2013
The practice of aborting female foetuses is found mostly in China and other Asian countries. But it is prevalent in...
By John Ross, The Australian | 09.20.2013
SCIENTISTS have called for time-out on an experimental therapy which could produce babies with three biological parents.
A paper published...
A paper published...
By Evan Charney, Independent Science News | 09.19.2013
One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis...
By Henry Gee, The Guardian | 09.19.2013
You'd think from the way that science tends to be reported in the popular prints, as they used to be...
By Elizabeth E. Joh, Genomics Law Report | 09.19.2013
With its decision in Maryland v. King [pdf], the Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of...
By Claire Cain Miller and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.18.2013
Silicon Valley has an obsession with immortality, and not just as science fiction. Many people here say they believe that...