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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 Rudolf Jaenisch and Ian Wilmut, Science | 03.30.2001
The successes in animal cloning suggest to some that the technology
has matured sufficiently to justify its application to human...
By Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press | 03.05.2001
Now I am going to read you a list of some programs and proposals that are being discussed in this...
By Time/CNN, Time/CNN | 02.07.2001
By Ruth Hubbard, GeneWatch | 12.31.2000
Volume 14 Number 1
January 2001
January 2001
The term eugenics, meaning "wellborn," was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, the scion...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, edited by Brian Tokar, New York: Zed Books, 2001 | 11.30.2000
(in Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, edited by Brian Tokar, New York: Zed Books, 2001)
"Life...
By Richard Hayes, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2001 | 11.30.2000
We are fast approaching the most consequential technological threshold in all of human history: the ability to directly manipulate the...
By System Three, System Three | 10.01.2000
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By Tom Abate , San Francisco Chronicle | 09.25.2000
Biotechnology has been erupting onto the news pages lately, but somehow
the headlines seem to highlight the trivial while missing...