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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...
China has reportedly conducted tests on members of its armed forces in hopes of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,”...
It is a double milestone: new evidence that cures are possible for many people born with sickle cell disease and...
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On the evening of Wednesday, December 2, Timnit Gebru, the co-lead...
The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...
In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply...
While the vaccines for Covid-19 seem to have been created in record time, the technology making them possible has been...
Over the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s...