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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...
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 Neil Shah, Wall Street Journal | 05.20.2015
Americans are postponing parenting and using fertility treatments to get pregnant. So what’s the financial toll? A new...
By Chris Kaposy, Impact Ethics | 05.19.2015
The journal Clinical Proteomics recently published an article describing a new experimental prenatal test for Down syndrome that...
By Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed News | 05.19.2015
On Tuesday afternoon, roughly 135 scientists, bioethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers from 25 countries wrapped up the first-ever...
By Charis Thompson, Ruha Benjamin, Jessica Cussins and Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 05.19.2015
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.18.2015
The debate over human "gene editing" has moved onto the national stage with a prestigious institute announcing it...
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 05.18.2015
Two years ago, scientists quietly developed a technique known as CRISPR/Cas, which allowed them to edit DNA more cheaply, more...
By Owen Bowcott, The Guardian | 05.18.2015
The failure by parents to register the majority of children born through surrogacy agreements has created “a ticking legal timebomb”...
By Olivia Gordon, The Telegraph | 05.18.2015
Joanna Rose’s father, if he is still alive, would be perfectly within his rights to refuse to have anything to...