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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...
You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation—why should you have to wait nine months to...
In the beginning, there was nature. Then the statistician Francis Galton — Charles Darwin’s half-cousin — set nature (heredity) in...
In a few short years, the parents of a newborn will know the baby’s full genome — every last secret...
Genome-wide sequencing is increasingly being conducted on fetal tissues, either as whole exome sequencing (WES), whole genome sequencing (WGS), or...
Infertility treatment is an emotional and financial rollercoaster. For couples trying to conceive (“TTC” in the many on-line support forums)...
Dubbed “Snowbaby,” Emma Gibson is now more than a month old
Her birth made headlines globally recently as her 25-year-old...
Malis* sits under her home in a remote village with her legs folded under her swelling belly. She’s six months...
Gene editing can change an animal’s sex.
A graduate student was waiting for Alison Van Eenennaam in the doorway of...