Aggressive marketing techniques and the popularization of “gifting” recreational ancestry tests has led more consumers than ever to the world...
Topics
Technologies
When 27-year-old Rita Ora announced recently that she had frozen her eggs, she joined a long list of celebrities touting...
In 1987, Jay Cook, 20, and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, a couple from Canada, were brutally killed while they were...
The remarkable sleuthing method that tracked down the Golden State Killer was not a one-off. A company in Virginia is...
Policies
The use of DNA for forensic purposes is long overdue for reassessment. The alleged identification of the so-called “Golden State...
Prime Minister Trudeau has stated it is time for Canadians to have a discussion about payment for surrogacy, eggs, and...
Here’s a double-negative brain twister with potentially huge financial ramifications and a Nobel Prize resting on the answer: For an...
Society
As appalling as it sounds today, the practice of sterilizing mentally ill women and men to prevent them from passing...
To all outward appearances, Louise Brown looked exactly the same as thousands of other babies when her blinking, slightly quizzical...
It’s a compelling narrative: A parent learns that his or her child has a fatal disease with no cure, and,...
Perspectives
This Mother’s Day, many women (and men) around the globe are struggling to have children, turning to a variety of...
To contemplate the news that Our Bodies, Ourselves will cease updating its print and online information is to contemplate the...
David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, is the author of a new best-selling book, Who We Are...
To the Editor:
In “ ‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...