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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.16.2013
Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was...
By Jennifer Schneider, MD
| 06.16.2013
My name is Jennifer Schneider. I’m an Internal Medicine physician and the mother of a Stanford student egg donor. I...
By Devon Maloney, Wired | 06.14.2013
Season 6 of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year’s cliffhanger where...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 06.14.2013
He’s back.
Last autumn, Hisashi Moriguchi stunned the world of stem-cell science by claiming he had become the first person...
Last autumn, Hisashi Moriguchi stunned the world of stem-cell science by claiming he had become the first person...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, several laboratories announced they, too, would...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.13.2013
Legislation that would permit women in California to be paid for their eggs for scientific research yesterday cleared a key...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies Our Blog | 06.13.2013
The process of in vitro fertilization – in which embryos are created outside a woman’s body and then implanted in...
By Adam Liptak, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents...