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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.29.2014
A surprising study has found that a simple acid bath might turn cells in the body into stem cells that...
By Editorial, New Scientist | 01.29.2014
It didn't take long after Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 for maverick scientists to start talking about cloning...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.28.2014
The whistle-blower who played a key part in exposing the fraud of South Korean cloning specialist Woo Suk Hwang has...
By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 01.27.2014
On July 20, 2010, Andrew Alexander, founder and director of easyDNA, received a letter from the US Food and Drug...
By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 01.27.2014
SEQUENCING genomes has become easy.
Understanding them remains incredibly hard. While the trickle of
sequence information has turned into a...
By David DiSalvo, Forbes | 01.26.2014
By the middle of 2014, the prospect of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction...
By Benjamin Winterhalter, Salon | 01.26.2014
On Nov. 22, 2013, the FDA sent a now-infamous letter to the genetic research startup 23andMe, ordering the company to...
By David Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 01.26.2014
The state of California is preparing to make a bet of up to $40 million on a fast-moving field that...