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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
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In 1959, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered a famously controversial lecture at Cambridge University. He described...
“I want to democratize science,” says biohacker extraordinaire Josiah Zayner.
This is certainly a worthy-sounding sentiment. And it is central...
When we talk about gene editing technology, we often talk about—but almost never deeply consider—the concept of designer babies. Consider...
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West have announced that their third child, a daughter, was born on Monday via surrogate...
In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an...
The year was 2004, and great medical breakthroughs were supposedly right around the corner.
In TV advertisements, celebrities Michael J...
HEBEI, North China — Even though Han Chunyu’s car was parked just outside his lab, the scientist wasn’t available to...