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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 Keith Norris, The Scientist | 02.01.2014
Clinical trials were traditionally conducted using predominately white male subjects. However, the 1993 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act...
By Edward Hockings, The Guardian | 01.31.2014
We have until March to opt out of the care.data initiative. The ‘theoretical risk’ that we might be...
By Melissa Hogenboom, BBC | 01.30.2014
Potential for the contamination of forensic DNA evidence has been highlighted by the Meredith Kercher murder trial. But just how...
By Helen Shen, Nature | 01.30.2014
The ultimate potential of precision gene-editing techniques is beginning to be realised. Today, researchers in China report the first monkeys...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 01.30.2014
Stem cells are the cellular putty from which all tissues of the body are made. Ever since human embryonic stem...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.29.2014
Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a $40 million proposal ultimately targeted at creating medical treatments tailored...
By Lara Salahi, The Boston Globe | 01.29.2014
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has given about 5 percent of couples who suffer from infertility a shot at parenthood. But...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 01.29.2014
Here it is, 2014, and we have “Is the will to work out genetically determined?,” by Bruce Grierson...