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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 Henry Fountain, The New York Times | 08.05.2013
A hamburger made from cow muscle grown in a laboratory was fried, served and eaten in London on Monday in...
By David Epstein, NPR News | 08.05.2013
We've all had the experience of watching a great athletic performance — from gymnast Mary Lou Retton defying gravity to...
By Jim Kozubek, The Boston Globe | 08.03.2013
By July, the swelter of summer was upon us. I felt locked into the crucible of Boston, so I headed...
By Duncan Geere, The Verge | 08.02.2013
Kickstarter is clamping down on genetically-modified organisms following the success of a project to genetically engineer glowing plants for use...
By Gillian Tett, Financial Times | 07.31.2013
There are not many areas of the economy where costs are one-millionth of what they were a decade ago. Biomedical...
By Michael Risher, The New York Times | 07.31.2013
Re “High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics,” by Osagie K. Obasogie (Op-Ed, July 25):
The myth of DNA infallibility has another...
The myth of DNA infallibility has another...
By Mike Glenn, The Houston Chronicle | 07.31.2013
Mike Martin needed a medical miracle.
Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the Houston man...
Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the Houston man...
By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 07.31.2013
Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences...