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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
A San Diego federal judge on Tuesday cleared a lawsuit against a La Jolla clinic purporting to offer stem cell...
Attempts to distill the essence of “selfhood” have occupied philosophers for centuries. Consensus has been fleeting at best, but is...
A new high-tech, controversial law enforcement procedure has some people worried it threatens the privacy of our DNA
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The University of California has filed an appeal to overturn a February decision by a US patent tribunal that dealt UC...
Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” was a publishing and scientific sensation earlier this decade that spent 75...
The other day, while scrolling through Instagram, an advertisement caught my eye. This happens often enough. Instagram’s ads, uniformly square...
Changing the name or gender on a government-issued document like a driver’s license has long included a frightening step for...