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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 | 07.18.2013
Scientists have demonstrated a new way to reprogram adult tissue to become cells as versatile as embryonic stem cells —...
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07.18.2013
WASHINGTON — The FBI will review thousands of old cases, including some involving the death penalty, in which hair samples...
By Sergio Bonin, UN Chronicle | 07.18.2013
“Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing...
By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 07.18.2013
The future of the UK regulating bodies for human-embryo and human-tissue research has been safeguarded, as the government’s announcement yesterday...
By Kent Sepkowitz, The Daily Beast | 07.18.2013
Las Vegas has long been the philosophic capital of U.S. commerce, a physical (if hallucinator) reminder that luck does indeed...
By Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India | 07.18.2013
NEW DELHI: With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing...
By Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 07.17.2013
An in-depth analysis and comparison study conducted by investigators at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health demonstrated variations in predicted...
By Paolo Bianco, Nature | 07.17.2013
Translational medicine is said to reflect a need to harness the huge wealth of scientific knowledge in biomedicine. In fact...