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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.17.2013
A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee approved the first uses of genomic data from the HeLa cell line...
By Rady Ananda, Activist Post | 09.16.2013
Next month, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the...
By Mallika Dutt, RH Reality Check | 09.16.2013
On Tuesday last week, I testified at a hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights...
By Louisa Ghevaert, BioNews | 09.16.2013
Surrogacy law and policy differs considerably between countries. Some jurisdictions ban or restrict the practice of surrogacy, whilst others have...
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.16.2013
From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our...
By Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 09.16.2013
ADVOCATES of personalised medicine claim that healthcare isn't individualised enough.
Backed up by the glamour of new biotechnologies such as...
Backed up by the glamour of new biotechnologies such as...
By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 09.15.2013
In his day job, UC Davis scientist Paul Knoepfler probes the inner workings of stem cells and cancer cells and...
By Craig Klugman, Bioethics | 09.15.2013
The National Institutes of Health wants to know the DNA of our babies. The government is not looking to diagnose...