Spurred on by proponents of the pseudoscientific eugenics movement, Minnesota was one of 32 states to enact such a law during the first half of the 20th century.

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and life science and pharmaceutical laboratories. Cleaning and Sterilization products use physical methods such as flaming, red heat, Incineration, hot air oven, and moist heat or chemical methods ...

Efficient sterilization methods are thus a necessity. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced a novel, sustainable, electrocatalytic sterilization method based on ...

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 passage of time ...

I was more appalled to discover they did not do that. Instead, when given the findings on the sterilization procedures performed on very young preteen and teen, mostly Black women, by the Beebe ...

"Eugenics is not dead but continues to influence science and policy today," writes ... the 20th century and was used to justify forced sterilization, racist immigration policies, and genocide ...