Homo sapiens were not always so special. In the ancient past, other human forms lived beside us. The...
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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 Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.07.2014
A new way to make powerful changes at will to the DNA of humans, other animals and plants...
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 09.05.2014
By The Guardian, The Guardian | 09.04.2014
The federal court has ruled that a company may patent genetic material that has been extracted from the human body...
By Yves Frégnac & Gilles Laurent, Nature | 09.03.2014
Launched in October 2013, the Human Brain Project (HBP) was sold by charismatic neurobiologist Henry Markram as a bold new...
By The Telegraph, The Telegraph | 09.02.2014
An Australian man has been charged with sexually abusing twin girls he fathered several years ago to a Thai surrogate...
By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times | 09.02.2014
BERLIN — The first to be singled out for systematic murder by the Nazis were the mentally ill...
By Cecilia Okoth, New Vision | 09.02.2014
Imagine a woman desperately trying to get pregnant, but so far every attempt is unsuccessful. Would you be brave enough...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.02.2014
Four years ago, Scott Fahrenkrug saw an ABC News segment about the dehorning of dairy cows, a painful procedure that...