In 2015, genes have many uses.
Soon after every baby in California is born, a hospital worker extracts and logs...
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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 Rob Stein, NPR | 03.05.2015
Melissa and her husband started trying to have a baby right after they got married. But nothing was happening. So...
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.05.2015
T. Ryan Gregory’s lab at the University of Guelph in Ontario is a sort of genomic menagerie, stocked with creatures...
By Andrew Maynard, The Conversation | 03.04.2015
On July 31, 2012, a massive blackout swept across northeast India. At 1 pm local time, a power...
By Jeremy B. White, The Sacramento Bee | 03.04.2015
By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 03.03.2015
In a move that stunned the stem cell field, the first researcher to create cloned human cells—and to derive embryonic...
By Justine Drennan, Foreign Policy | 03.02.2015
When Thailand’s parliament passed a law banning most forms of surrogacy late last month, its main motivations were...
By Frederik Joelving, Reuters | 03.02.2015
(Reuters Health) - Renting out their wombs may ease financial problems for poor women in India, but new research...
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.02.2015
A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately...