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On a nearly still and moonlit night last week, some 75 people formed a circle...
Topics
Technologies
This article was originally published as “Soziogenomik und polygene Scores” in issue 272 (February 2025) of the German-language journal Gen-ethischer...
Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA...
You can only throw so much money at a problem.
This, more or less, is the line being taken by...
Policies
The Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act passed unanimously in the Tennessee Senate and aims to protect access to IVF...
“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero,
San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...
As investigators struggled for weeks to find who might have committed the brutal stabbings of four University of Idaho students...
Society
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Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after...
Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why...
On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
After almost 20 years of publicity stunts and dubious claims, we may not have 23andMe to kick around anymore. The...
Perspectives
"The Promise and Peril of CRISPR" cover by Johns Hopkins University Press
As a paediatrician taking care of children with...
Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we...
After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization...