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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 Franki Webb, IPPro Life Sciences | 10.31.2013
Last month, 23andMe caused controversy when it patented technology that could allow parents to effectively design their own babies.
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By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.31.2013
A federal judge has invalidated the central patent underlying a noninvasive method of detecting Down syndrome in fetuses without the...
By IBN, IBN Live | 10.30.2013
Foreign nationals intending to visit India for commissioning surrogacy will not be allowed to come on a tourist visa from...
By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.30.2013
MOST parents dream of a 5-week-old baby who sleeps through the night, but Aga Warnell knew something was wrong. Her...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.29.2013
He founded two genetic-sequencing companies and sold them for hundreds of millions of dollars. He helped to sequence the genomes...
By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 10.29.2013
Hundreds of thousands of patients have been exposed to potential harm in clinical trials whose results have yet to be...
By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.28.2013
Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Education, recently provoked a flurry of complaints by...
By Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show | 10.28.2013
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When the human genome was mapped a decade ago, the ability to uncover...