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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 Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 08.29.2013
(CNN) -- We've seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another...
By Sam Jewler, CitizenVox | 08.28.2013
I’ve been in tense police-protester situations before, but generally in more of a civil disobedience context. It was the last...
By Meredith Wadman, Nature | 08.28.2013
Was it enough for doctors to tell the parents of extremely premature infants that there was “no additional risk” to...
By Dan Kedmey, Time | 08.27.2013
Kumarasamy Thangaraj traveled 840 miles (1,350 km) off of the eastern coast of India by plane, then ship, then six...
By Donald Zuhn, Patent Docs | 08.27.2013
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.27.2013
The first humans left Africa some 200,000 years ago, dispersing to populate the rest of the world. But this was...
By Lea Winerman, Washington Post | 08.26.2013
Midway through her pregnancy four years ago, Denise Bratina got some scary news. Doctors told Bratina, then 37, that amniocentesis...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.26.2013
US behavioural researchers have been handed a dubious distinction — they are more likely than their colleagues in other parts...