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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 Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.07.2014
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as...
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Nature | 04.07.2014
Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has...
By Leah Ceccarelli, The Seattle Times | 04.06.2014
In a televised speech introducing the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s TV series “Cosmos,” President...
By Catherine de Lange, The Guardian | 04.05.2014
Two days after Anne Morriss took her newborn son home from hospital, she received a bone-chilling phone call. The stranger...
By Stef dela Cruz, All Voices | 04.04.2014
“If the doctor of a former president gave you the assurance that your daughter will be cured of cancer after...
By Eloise Lynton, The Harvard Independent | 04.04.2014
Last summer, at my cousin’s baby shower, I sat in a room covered in pink from floor to ceiling. Pink...
By Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian | 04.04.2014
Dr Sharon Moalem recently diagnosed a mother with a rare type of hereditary ataxia, a neurological disorder for which there...
By Julie Power, The Sydney Morning Herald | 04.03.2014
For the first time, the NSW Police Force has used DNA testing to screen its newest crop of 189 student...