Chromosomes

Sources regarding advancements in genetics in the 1960s

https://www.synthego.com/learn/genome-engineering-history

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/geneticcode.html

"Denouncing Nazis and appealing to national defense were only a few immediate ways in which eugenicists sought to cleanse their branding of negative associations. In 1948, the American Society of Human Genetics founded and had high leadership crossover with the American Eugenics Society so it could easily be seen as an effort at rebranding. However, many human geneticists still described themselves as eugenicists, although some tried to distance themselves from older eugenics practices. For example, geneticist James Neel once in 1954 described his work as “new eugenics, where I define eugenics simply as a collection of policies designed to improve the genetic well-being of our species” [12]. However, by the late 1960s, eugenics had become a toxic enough term that in 1968 Frederick Osborn, one of the founding members of the American Eugenics Society decades earlier, said that “eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under a name other than eugenics” [13]. "

https://lewiscar.sites.grinnell.edu/HistoryofMedicine/spring2018/the-adapting-eugenics-movement-after-wwii/