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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 Margalit Fox, The New York Times | 11.23.2013
Adrienne Asch, an internationally known bioethicist who opposed the use of prenatal testing and abortion to select children free of...
By Eliana Dockterman, Time | 11.22.2013
Those of you busy buying tickets to Thor or The Hunger Games, may have missed a movie premiering this...
By Bob Holmes, New Scientist | 11.21.2013
Being a male is easier than it looks. The defining genetic feature of maleness, the Y chromosome, contains only two...
By Christina Farr, Venture Beat | 11.20.2013
In September, Google announced a mysterious new venture to combat death itself.
Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the...
Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the...
By John Fowler, KTVU | 11.20.2013
BERKELEY, Calif. — Parents will do just about anything to improve what they see as their children’s chance for success...
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.20.2013
The expanding use of genetic testing is having an unforeseen consequence: More people are being told they have genes for...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 11.20.2013
The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2013
In recent years, DNA variants in two different genes have been linked to how much blood thinner a patient needs...