The recent close-call US presidential election grabbed headlines, but no less closely-fought was California's Proposition 14, also on the ballot in...
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Technologies
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Living under the COVID-19 pandemic has justifiably created fear and uncertainty about germs and...
The breathtaking progress in molecular genetics that has occurred over the past five decades and the transition to genomic medicine...
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The last year was extraordinary. It challenged, touched, and changed all of us...
Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England for the first time under a consultation launched...
Policies
Low-income commuters who rely on public transit face many challenges—multiple transfers, long waits, and off-hour travel—that aren’t measured in the...
Singapore has announced its police will be able to use data obtained by its coronavirus contact-tracing technology for criminal investigations,...
After a year of heavy scrutiny and seemingly endless controversy around artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies, the field’s most prestigious conference has...
Society
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Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of...
After a tumultuous three years marked by halting progress and high rates of employee turnover, Haven — the ambitious...
To converse with Shobita Parthasarathy is to be enveloped in two kinds of warmth: that of a generous-spirited, energetic, and...
Abstract
The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing...
Perspectives
A recently released study finds that Europe has reduced the number of babies born with Down syndrome by 54%. In...
“Phrenology” has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting and...
When Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe began to research coronavirus infections among Black and Hispanic patients, he thought he knew what he...
A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...