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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 Alana Cattapan, Impact Ethics | 12.21.2013
On December 10, 2013, the Montreal Gazette published a story describing an ongoing dispute between Dr. Seang Lin Tan and...
By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 12.20.2013
The title of my blog post is provocative, I know, but I’m actually just lifting it from the title of...
By Shereen Jegtvig, Reuters | 12.20.2013
(Reuters Health) - People who donated sperm and eggs before 1998 in one Australian state were able to remain anonymous...
By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 12.19.2013
For better and worse, 2013 has been a year in which several related issues familiar to those who follow human...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.19.2013
Researchers have for the first time determined the genome sequence of human egg cells without destroying them.
The feat, reported...
The feat, reported...
By Dan Vergano, National Geographic | 12.19.2013
Advances in our understanding of the brain have turned neuroscience into one of the hottest frontiers in research, and in...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 12.19.2013
In May 2004 Daniel Markingson, a patient with schizophrenia in an anti-psychotic drug trial at the University of Minnesota in...
By Laasya Samhita, New Scientist | 12.19.2013
Imagine if we could turn back time. A team that has identified a new way in which cells age has...