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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 Sabrina Tevernise, New York Times | 03.15.2014
BEAVERTON, ORE. — To most people, the word “mitochondria” is only dimly familiar, the answer to a test question in...
By Thomas H. Murray, Science | 03.14.2014
In February 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee met to consider...
By George J. Annas and Sherman Elias, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.13.2014
In August 2013, the genetic-testing company 23andMe began running a compelling national television commercial, in which attractive young people said...
By Jessica Cussins, RH Reality Check | 03.13.2014
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting in late February to consider experimental new techniques that would...
By Press Release, Care | 03.13.2014
New polling released by the charity CARE this morning supports the concern expressed by MPs yesterday afternoon that the Government...
By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker | 03.12.2014
Sometime in the summer of 1914, probably on September 1st but perhaps a few days earlier, the last passenger pigeon...
By David Ewing Duncan, Newsweek | 03.12.2014
Keeping track of what we reveal about ourselves each day—through email and text messages, Amazon purchases and Facebook "likes"—is hard...
By Sara Bergstresser, Voices in Bioethics | 03.12.2014
The first time I heard Adrienne Asch speak, she had assumed her role as a respected and influential member of...