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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...
Deaf Power Poster
As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called...
The November general election ballot includes two statewide propositions that address health issues. Proposition 14 asks voters to extend the...
The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and...
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...
WE ARE LIVING through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and...
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...
Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in...
Studies in animals, including one described recently in Wired, show that the gene manipulation technique CRISPR has a habit...



