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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 Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Amanda Schaffer, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2013
Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the...
By Marisa Peñaloza, WBUR | 12.17.2013
Thousands of children are conceived using sperm and egg donors every year, a group large enough to entice MTV to...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 12.17.2013
Lots of children have three parents. A boy’s mother and father might divorce, and one remarries. A girl might be...
By The Editorial Board, USA Today | 12.16.2013
Opening the door to genetic testing and its potential health benefits to anyone with $99 and the desire to spit...
By Karen Weintraub, The New York Times | 12.16.2013
Alana Saarinen sat at the piano, playing smoothly and with feeling. Behind her, plastic toys shared floor space with a...
By The Times editorial board, The Los Angeles Times | 12.16.2013
The Supreme Court erred grievously this year when it permitted Maryland police to collect DNA samples from people who had...