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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 The Economist, The Economist | 09.21.2013
The practice of aborting female foetuses is found mostly in China and other Asian countries. But it is prevalent in...
By John Ross, The Australian | 09.20.2013
SCIENTISTS have called for time-out on an experimental therapy which could produce babies with three biological parents.
A paper published...
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By Evan Charney, Independent Science News | 09.19.2013
One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis...
By Henry Gee, The Guardian | 09.19.2013
You'd think from the way that science tends to be reported in the popular prints, as they used to be...
By Elizabeth E. Joh, Genomics Law Report | 09.19.2013
With its decision in Maryland v. King [pdf], the Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of...
By Claire Cain Miller and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.18.2013
Silicon Valley has an obsession with immortality, and not just as science fiction. Many people here say they believe that...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.17.2013
A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee approved the first uses of genomic data from the HeLa cell line...
By Rady Ananda, Activist Post | 09.16.2013
Next month, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the...