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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

IVF
By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times | 04.03.2024

 A Mobile, Ala., hospital at the center of a State Supreme Court ruling that found that frozen embryos could be...

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By Tristan Manalac, BioSpace | 04.02.2024

Verve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a...

EGG FREEZING
By Rae Nudson, The Cut | 04.02.2024

At one point during Lisa Xu’s second round of egg freezing last year, she thought to herself, How did I...

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By Justin McCurry, The Guardian | 04.01.2024

A Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for his role in creating the world’s first genetically edited babies says he has...

Surrogate
By Sabrina Souza and Zoe Sottile, CNN | 04.01.2024

Michigan has become the last state to decriminalize paid surrogacy on Monday, after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package...

graphic of IVF
By Eric Cheung, CNN | 03.30.2024

For married Taiwanese men Alan Hung and Danny Huang, the process of having a biological child together was never easy...

egg freezing graphic
By Eleanor Hayward and Joanna Crawford, The Times | 03.29.2024

Gazing out at the Mediterranean from an idyllic rocky mountaintop, Sophie Hermann announced to her half a million Instagram followers...

Camera
By Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...