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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 Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
Many of the stem cell lines used by academics and registered with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) would...
By Ron Synovitz and Zamira Eshanova, The Atlantic | 02.06.2014
The idea of using genetic testing to spot future world-class athletes has been bandied about for years. Now, Uzbekistan hopes...
By Tony Dokoupil, NBC News | 02.06.2014
Days before she ended her pregnancy, Joselin Linder was thrilled to imagine herself as a parent. She was 37, newly-married...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week (February 4) that culturing a patient’s stem cells for therapeutic use...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014
In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...
By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 02.05.2014
LONDON – “Your genetic information should be controlled by you,” declares an advertisement for the American direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic-testing firm...
By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 02.05.2014
Talk about speedy work. Hot on the heels of the news that simply dipping adult mouse cells in acid could...
By Martin LaMonica, MIT Technology Review | 02.05.2014
Biotech company LS9 launched in 2005 with great ambitions: founded by premier scientists and top-flight venture capitalists, it planned to...