Scientific progress devoid of moral reflection risks repeating past injustices ...

The world’s largest human genetics group apologized for some of its founding members’ role in the American eugenics movement and the negative ways they exploited science to justify racism, violence, ...

Survival of the fittest—a concept that’s been twisted and abused since its birth—could be a Trump administration motto.

The New York Times has taken the mainstream media’s sanewashing of Donald Trump to the next level, this time with an innocuous-sounding headline: “Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession ...

In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution, a sinister ideology took root — eugenics. It was an attempt to impose political control upon humanity’s unruly DNA by ...

In 1912, Henry Goddard, a psychologist and research director at the Vineland Training School in New Jersey, expanded the ...

ROCHESTER — Drs. William and Charles Mayo are known as medicine’s dynamic duo, talented surgeons and founders of Mayo Clinic who turned a small rural town into a worldwide medical mecca. But the ...

Nucleus Genomics claims to give couples a picture of their combined risk for passing down hundreds of conditions to their ...

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all “campus buildings, assets, and honors.” This unnaming came as the institution ...

This story was published in partnership with The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At ...

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" ...