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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 Gretchen Vogel, Science Insider | 02.27.2014
The U.K. government today issued proposed regulations that would allow researchers to try a new and controversial in vitro fertilization...
By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 02.26.2014
WASHINGTON — Genetic experts cautioned that it could take decades to confirm the safety of an experimental technique, meant to...
By Tom Ashbrook, NPR On Point | 02.26.2014
Day two today of F.D.A. hearings on what you may have seen described in headlines as “three-parent babies.” The genetic...
By Matt Ruben, Philadelphia Magazine | 02.26.2014
Earlier this week, Sandy Hingston reported on a new study by California economics professor Gregory Clark, which claims genes...
By Pam Belluck, New York Times | 02.26.2014
A test that analyzes fetal DNA found in a pregnant woman’s blood proved much more accurate in screening for Down...
By Molly Redden, Mother Jones | 02.25.2014
South Dakota already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. But last week, Republican legislators there...
By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 02.25.2014
Even Teru Wakayama, a co-author on the Nature reprogramming papers that stunned the stem cell world this month, says he...
By Alejandra Dubcovsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.24.2014
I love the sciences. Because my father was a scientist, I grew up surrounded by talk of running gels, western...