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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...
Since my colleagues and I first described CRISPR as a genome-engineering tool in 2012, the technique has transformed fundamental research...
SYDNEY, Australia — The tabloids in Australia called Kathleen Folbigg a murderer of innocent babies — the nation’s “worst female...
When Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, there was no black-tie ceremony in Sweden. Because...
It’s been two decades since the Human Genome Project first unveiled a rough draft of our genetic instruction book. The...
Every time one of America’s genetic-testing companies advertises a deal on DNA kits, Michael (not his real name) braces himself...
There are two major lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Alice Wong, founder and director of...
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A huge wave of anti-transgender legislation is coursing through statehouses in the early months...
It’s a familiar story: the virile sperm fights its path through the hostile uterus to the passive female egg. After...