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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...
1 A whole new world
Biology is a way of structuring matter at a molecular scale by slotting each atom...
An anonymous incubator space just off the New Jersey Turnpike is the unlikely setting for Genomic Prediction, a genetic testing...
At 9:00 a.m. last December 14, a man in Orange County, California, discovered he’d been robbed. Someone had swiped his...
When Karina Vetrano was found beaten and strangled in a Queens park nearly three years ago, the New York Police...
On March 13, Nature published a call for a global moratorium on heritable human genome editing signed by several prominent...
Analyzing and indefinitely keeping the DNA profiles of thousands of Californians arrested for felonies, but never charged with a crime...
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the...
Since its invention, CRISPR has let scientists introduce DNA changes at specific locations in a genome. Often these precise changes...