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Designer Babies [video]

By Mike Sacks, HuffPost Live | 03. 29. 2013
[With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky]

Perspectives

Human Biotech is in the News: We Need to Talk

By Pete Shanks | 09.25.2024
Assisted Reproduction

Eugenics: still a fool's errand

By Emma McDonald Kennedy | 07.11.2024
Genetic Selection

Population Bomb, Great Replacement Theory, and Pronatalism

By Kyla Rosin | 06.27.2024
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Fluctuating Fortunes of Techno-Prophets

By Pete Shanks | 07.02.2024
Genetic Selection

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