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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 David King, CNN | 05.17.2013
(CNN) -- Today was a strange day. I'm used to handling the brief but overwhelming burst of media attention that...
By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.16.2013
Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer...
By MercoPress, MercoPress [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.16.2013
The landmark discovery by an Oregon Health & Science University team involved taking a skin cell from an 8-month-old child...
By Julie Rovner, NPR | 05.16.2013
The news that U.S. scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that...
By AP, Associated Press | 05.16.2013
DES MOINES (AP) — People convicted of certain aggravated misdemeanors in Iowa now will be required to submit DNA samples...
By Miriam Zoll, RH Reality Check | 05.15.2013
In an essay recently published in the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Elizabeth Richards, author of the new book Motherhood...
By Tara Brady, Daily Mail | 05.15.2013
A woman who was the first to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor has had her pregnancy...
By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic | 05.15.2013
Andrew Sullivan and Freddie Deboer have two pieces up worth checking out. I disagree with Andrew's (though I detect some...