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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 John R. Platt, Scientific American | 03.06.2013
At some point in the next decade, if advances in biotechnology continue on their current path, clones of extinct species...
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 03.06.2013
(CNN) -- Crystal Kelley ran through the calendar once again in her head.
It was August, and if she got...
It was August, and if she got...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 03.04.2013
A new type of stem cell, discovered by UCSF researchers, may open new possibilities for fixing damaged parts of the...
By Gina Maranto, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor
| 03.04.2013
The unfortunate truth is that discredited ideas never do die, they just rise again in slightly altered forms—witness eugenics. Despite...
By Amy Corderoy, The Age [Australia] | 03.04.2013
A decision that private companies can control human genes will be appealed in the Federal Court.
Cancer groups have applauded...
Cancer groups have applauded...
By Kerry Brewster, ABC News [Australia] | 03.04.2013
In Australia, commercial surrogacy is illegal. The ban has resulted in a steady flow of heterosexual and gay Australians to...
By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.04.2013
Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon.
More than a decade ago...
More than a decade ago...
By Jenny Reardon, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.03.2013
While checking in last month for an appointment with my doctor, I was handed a clipboard and pen and asked...