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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...
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.25.2005
Although California voters last November approved a proposition that promises to push the state to the forefront of embryonic stem...
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.24.2005
The action leaves unsettled California's authority to issue bonds for the $3 billion to pay for the plan voters approved...
By Idan Ivri, Los Angeles City Beat | 03.24.2005
With the November passage of Proposition 71, the state stem cell initiative, California voters once again jumped out front on...
By Peter Aldhous, Nature | 03.23.2005
Biologists anticipating a stem-cell gold rush in California will have to wait a little longer, as a string of setbacks...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 03.22.2005
LOS ANGELES - The chairman of the state stem cell agency's oversight board rejected every point in a petition seeking...
By Bernadine Healy, M.D., US News and World Report | 03.21.2005
The United States is in the midst of a gold rush over human-embryo research. Not to be outdone by California's...
By The Observer, The Observer | 03.20.2005
The creation of a creature that is half-man/half-animal may be thought to be the stuff of a science fiction novel...
By Michael Dobie, New York Newsday | 03.20.2005
There are mice in Lee Sweeney's laboratory. Cute-looking mice with little ears, tails, fur. Some are black, some white. At...