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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 Editorial, Nature | 06.26.2013
Tissue is removed from a woman in hospital. A scientist grows the tissue into a cell line. The cell line...
By Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.26.2013
When a San Jose man charged with murdering a Monte Sereno millionaire was suddenly freed last month, prosecutors acknowledged he...
By Dennis Normile, Science | 06.26.2013
A Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare panel has accepted a plan to carry out what would be the...
By Apoorva Mandavilli, Slate | 06.25.2013
By now you’ve probably heard that, thanks to the Supreme Court, no one, and certainly not Myriad Genetics, can patent...
By Aura Bogado, The Nation | 06.25.2013
In a 5 to 4 decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) does not...
By Ann Törnkvist, The Local | 06.24.2013
"Honestly, what the hell is the problem?" says Swedish actress Aleksa Lundberg about the Swedish prime minister's refusal to apologize...
By Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Codex | 06.23.2013
In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 06.20.2013
deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links between genes and diseases, has...