News
Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...
Image by NIH Image Gallery from Flickr
The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...
"Smithsonian Museum of Natural History" by melizabethi123 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
On the day Mary Sara died...
Wrongful arrests, an expanding surveillance dragnet, defamation and deep-fake pornography are all actually existing dangers of so-called...
In 1923, Princeton University Press published “A Study of American Intelligence” by Carl Campbell Brigham, a eugenicist and professor of...
Better cancer treatments, advances in longevity, groundbreaking medicines and vaccines: these are just some of the potential prizes on offer...
Timnit Gebru didn't set out to work in AI. At Stanford, she studied electrical engineering — getting both a bachelor’s...
The heirs of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman who died in the 1950s and whose cells have been reproduced for...
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough...
