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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 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 10.03.2013
What’s even more repulsive than the idea of using DNA tests to help people create a designer babies? Getting a...
By BBC, BBC News [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.03.2013
A US patent for a database that uses DNA testing to tell prospective parents which traits their future offspring...
By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.03.2013
Has Google gone right off the deep end? It's common for techies to be infatuated with transhumanism and other far-out...
By Editorial, Nature | 10.02.2013
Intelligence tests were first devised in the early twentieth century as a way to identify children who needed extra help...
By Veronica Linares, UPI.com | 10.02.2013
Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began Tuesday and in the legislation's all-inclusive policy programs are a variety of...
By Kim Mackrael, The Globe and Mail | 10.02.2013
The federal government is considering a move to collect DNA samples from suspects upon arrest for certain crimes, a significant...
By Amy Julia Becker, Patheos | 10.02.2013
When Amy Julia Becker asked me to write a post responding to the question “Should Down syndrome Be Cured?” I...
By Veronica Foale, ABC | 10.02.2013
eugenics
The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human...