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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...

Eugenics
By Anne Rumberger and Marcy Darnovsky, Science for the People | 02.29.2024

Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after...

Stem cells
By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian | 02.28.2024

Doctors say a man in California who contracted blood cancer while living with HIV is in remission from both potentially...

Genes
By Max Kozlov, Nature | 02.23.2024

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

IVF on microscopic level
By Mary Ziegler, Naomi Cahn, and Sonia Suter, MSNBC | 02.22.2024

This decision will affect the millions of people who become pregnant each year, their families, and their health care providers...

Map of Ukraine
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 02.22.2024

In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology...

IVF Petrie Dish
By David Sable, STAT | 02.22.2024

Imagine having 15 miscarriages.

Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and keep trying to have children...

Fertility Clinic
By Azeen Ghorayshi and Sarah Kliff, The New York Times | 02.22.2024

The bizarre episode was at the center of lawsuits filed by three families that eventually reached the Alabama Supreme Court...

Genomics Education
By Brian M. Donovan, Monica Weindling, Jamie Amemiya, Brae Salazar, Dennis Lee, Awais Syed, Molly Stuhlsatz, and Jeffrey Snowden, Science | 02.22.2024

For as long as the concept of race has existed, racial prejudice has been justified on hereditary grounds (1...