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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...
A new generation of genetic engineering techniques, collectively known as "gene editing," is being hailed as a game-changer in the...
In an unusual move, a leading genetic testing company is making genetic information from the people it has...
This week I’m calling out some recent headlines about medical “breakthroughs” that were wildly misleading. Even when the science itself...
Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out. The non-profit company is where...
On a Tuesday morning in Boise, biologist Greg Hampikian is on speakerphone with Christopher Tapp, an inmate at the Idaho...
Little Kate Summersgill certainly didn’t look like a child with Down syndrome — no upward slanting eyes or telltale flat...
In the expanding realm ruled by Randal J. Kirk, sliced apples don’t brown. Salmon grow twice as fast without swimming...
Getting a full readout of your entire genetic sequence promises to radically alter how we monitor our health...