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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 John Horgan, Scientific American | 08.05.2013
I’ve complained in previous columns about excessive medical testing, which leads to unnecessary treatment and drives up health care costs...
By Arthur Allen, Washington Post | 08.05.2013
If you become ill with a blood cancer or other disease that requires a stem cell transplant, here’s an uncomfortable...
By Henry Fountain, The New York Times | 08.05.2013
A hamburger made from cow muscle grown in a laboratory was fried, served and eaten in London on Monday in...
By David Epstein, NPR News | 08.05.2013
We've all had the experience of watching a great athletic performance — from gymnast Mary Lou Retton defying gravity to...
By Jim Kozubek, The Boston Globe | 08.03.2013
By July, the swelter of summer was upon us. I felt locked into the crucible of Boston, so I headed...
By Duncan Geere, The Verge | 08.02.2013
Kickstarter is clamping down on genetically-modified organisms following the success of a project to genetically engineer glowing plants for use...
By Gillian Tett, Financial Times | 07.31.2013
There are not many areas of the economy where costs are one-millionth of what they were a decade ago. Biomedical...
By Michael Risher, The New York Times | 07.31.2013
Re “High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics,” by Osagie K. Obasogie (Op-Ed, July 25):
The myth of DNA infallibility has another...
The myth of DNA infallibility has another...