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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
Among all the forensic tools available to criminal investigators, DNA analysis is the only one that has consistently produced reliable...
In 2013, some 200 million humans suffered from malaria, and an estimated 584,000 of them died, 90 percent in Africa...
Imagine you’re a veteran who was critically wounded while serving your country. You’ve returned home, struggled through rehab, and now...
The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...
23andMe bills itself as a company that “democratizes personal genetics” for the world. And that description’s not necessarily all that...
Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers is a compelling tale of surrogacy and late parenthood.
Set in...
A cultural phenomenon is growing these days in the world of gamete donation. The voices of the donor-conceived...
Google Inc.’s Calico, a biotechnology firm created by the search-engine giant to study aging and related diseases, will...