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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 Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 06.12.2013
Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into...
By Steven E. Brenner, Nature | 06.12.2013
Most people in the United States could soon know someone whose genome is held in a research database. Concerns are...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern, The Wall Street Journal | 06.12.2013
Four million American women are expecting a child this year, and many of them will encounter something entirely new in...
By Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Rori V. Rohlfs, and Stephanie M. Fullerton, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributors
| 06.11.2013
A shorter version of this was published in Nature Reviews Genetics [abstract].
In July 2010, California police used...
By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones | 06.10.2013
If you're like me, the concept of synthetic biology—the application of engineering techniques to the building blocks of life—is...
By Jason Overdorf, Global Post | 06.10.2013
NEW DELHI, India — The revelation that a convicted sex offender from Israel succeeded years ago in hiring a surrogate...
By Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian | 06.08.2013
In the almost year-long lead-up to having my whole genome sequenced, I have no fears about it. Or at least...
By Jamie Rappaport Clark, Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There has been a lot of talk in the scientific community and the media recently about the idea of "de-extinction;"...