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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 Cyranoski, Nature | 08.21.2013
Since last October, molecular biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi has received around a dozen e-mails from couples, most of them middle-aged, who...
By Robert Nussbaum, Technology Review | 08.21.2013
In June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patents on genes were invalid. Yet corporate intellectual-property claims can still harm...
By Jesse Larner, Huffington Post | 08.21.2013
I had really hoped never to hear anything more from Jason Richwine. It does sometimes happen that a public figure...
By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post | 08.20.2013
Devan Weathers was pulling into her office parking lot from a lunch break when she got the phone call from...
By Lynne Taylor, PharmaTimes | 08.19.2013
The development of genomics for public health is being prioritised mainly by low- and middle-income nations, with richer countries not...
By Jonathan Marks, Anthropomics | 08.19.2013
Some of you older folks may remember the case in which geneticist Therese Markow (then of Arizona State, now of...
By Judy Campbell, KQED | 08.19.2013
A bill prompted by a custody dispute involving actor Jason Patric would allow certain sperm donors to seek paternity rights...
By Katie Mcdonough, Salon | 08.19.2013
In May of this year, Miriam Yeung, the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, joined...