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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
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Every so often stories of genetic theft, or extreme precautions taken to avoid...
The APOE4 gene is the most powerful genetic factor driving a person's risk for developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Tools such as CRISPR that snip DNA to alter its sequence are moving tantalizingly...
In clinics today, fertility patients using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are routinely advised to pay for an expensive supplemental test...
New Delhi: For centuries, matching janampatris and kundalis, or natal charts, has been an important aspect of the matchmaking process...
The bunk theory of eugenics has come up once again as a talking point in the wake of the devastating...
When a man washed up on the shores of Christmas Island in 1942, lifeless and hunched over in a shrapnel-riddled...