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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...

poctures of Holocaust victims
By Herwig Czech et al. , The Lancet | 11.08.2023

Executive Summary

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...

a sickle cell
By Ned Pagliarulo and Shaun Lucas, BioPharma Dive | 11.08.2023

For most people, red blood cells travel smoothly through the body. Round and flexible, they flow through arteries and veins...

vials of blood
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.08.2023

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she...

map of california
By Garnet Henderson, Rewire News Group | 11.06.2023

“We go in for excessive bleeding and come out missing body parts! How does that make sense?”

For more than...

human brain connected to electrical circuits
By Jonathan Shaffer, Arsenii Alenichev, and Marlyn C. Faure, BMJ Global Health | 11.03.2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical...

FDA logo
By Derrick Gingery, Pink Sheet | 11.01.2023

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...

sickle cell
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.31.2023
A panel of experts said on Tuesday that a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease was safe enough for clinical...
sperm donor graphic
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 10.31.2023

On May 31, 2022, Colorado was the first state in the country — and the only one to date —...