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I want to enrich the debate about the ethics and governance of human germline editing (HGE) by emphasizing an...
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By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026
THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By Jeffrey Ostler, The Atlantic | 04.29.2020
As the death toll from COVID-19 mounts, people of color are clearly at greater risk than others. Among the most...
By Charles Schmidt, Scientific American | 04.29.2020
On January 10, when Chinese researchers published the genome of a mysterious, fast-spreading, virus, it confirmed Dan Barouch’s greatest worry...
By Françoise Baylis and Natalie Kofler, Issues in Science and Technology | 04.29.2020
As COVID-19 case numbers start to plateau in various places, some governments are now focusing on how best to ease...
By Sam Husseini, Salon | 04.24.2020
There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered...
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 04.21.2020
Several of the fertility world's top advisory bodies have strongly urged fertility clinics to stop or severely scale back services...
By Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez, CRISPR Journal (paywall) | 04.21.2020
By Deborah Hellman, The Conversation | 04.20.2020
As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources...
By Ronnie S. Stangler, Medium | 04.19.2020
Last night, I entered intimate personal health information into a database that can be accessed by anyone. This is not...