Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved ...

Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved through selective breeding – remains opaque almost 100 years after ...

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 ...

In July, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the “father of modern genetics” for his discovery of the laws of inheritance. His experiments with ...