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By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026
THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
For weeks, Sacramento and three other cities have been primping and preening to land a coveted title - Miss Stem...
By Charles Halpern
| 05.05.2005
To Members of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Finance Committee
Dear Chairman Angelides and Committee members:
The California...
By Steve Lawrence, Associated Press | 05.03.2005
With several lawmakers abstaining, an Assembly committee Tuesday rejected a bill that would ban the sale of cloned or genetically...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.02.2005
Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...
By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee | 05.01.2005
Scientists are normally a cautious bunch, nervous about making bold predictions or being accused of unprofessional hype. Yet those cautions...
Speaking of conflicts, there have been some disturbing developments recently at the two big cash boxes of biomedical research -...
By Daniel Shaywitz, Washington Post | 04.29.2005
This week the National Academies released new guidelines for research involving human embryonic stem cells, the latest milestone in what...
By Kristen Philipkoski, Wired | 04.28.2005
Reproductive technologies have a long history of freedom from government regulation in the United States, but that record could now...