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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...
In September, 1904, a twenty-year-old Grenadian man named Walter Clement Noel disembarked in New York after an eight-day voyage from...
Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over...
If, through biotechnology, we could drastically enhance ourselves—such that our ability to absorb and manipulate information was unlimited, we experienced...
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A California company says it can decipher almost all the DNA code of a...
In fertility medicine, preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has been developed for two purposes: first, to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
Biophysicist He Jiankui, having served a 3-year sentence for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies, may be released from...
Chinese bioethicists are looking at the issues around caring for the world’s first gene-edited babies, and say more needs to...