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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 Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 08.12.2013
Nestled inside a generic-looking office building here in suburban Maryland, down the hall from cable-provider Comcast, sits the largest blood...
By Quentin Fottrell, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2013
We are all Henrietta Lacks. Or, according to privacy experts, we soon could be. Americans are giving their DNA to...
By Peter Hardin and Paul Lombardo, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 08.11.2013
In a landmark action, North Carolina legislators have voted to spend $10 million to compensate men and women sterilized under...
By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News | 08.11.2013
In the 14 years since her daughter, Rachel, was born with Down syndrome, Jawanda Mast has always been clear that...
By Benjamin Fong, The New York Times | 08.11.2013
During my graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia, I spent countless hours in the Burke Library of...
By Simon Roach, The Guardian | 08.10.2013
It's 1998 and science is taking big strides. The first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, has just had her first...
By Brian Resnick, National Journal | 08.08.2013
You can't patent a piece of the human genome, the Supreme Court declared in a unanimous decision in June...
By Ben Henderson, YouGov | 08.07.2013
A majority of Americans say cloning animals is acceptable in some circumstances, but not to reintroduce extinct species
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