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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 Antonio Regelado, MIT Technology Review | 06.15.2017
Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of
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By Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post | 06.13.2017
JOHNSTON, Iowa — Green stalks have only just begun to sprout in the test fields where biotech giant DuPont Pioneer is...
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2017
A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000
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By Francie Diep, Pacific Standard | 06.12.2017
Advances in DNA profiling bring up some interesting questions.
Despite what procedural dramas might lead you to believe, the DNA...
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.12.2017
When people talk about the gene-editing technology CRISPR, it’s usually accompanied by adjectives like “revolutionary” or “world-changing...
By Osagie Obasogie, The Atlantic | 06.12.2017
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the
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By Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine | 06.09.2017
The Repository for Germinal Choice was supposed to produce super-kids from the sperm of white high achievers
Robert Klark Graham...
By Charles Piller, STAT | 06.08.2017
Federal investigators searched a California DNA testing lab Wednesday and hauled away boxes of documents as part of a health...



