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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 George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker, Los Angeles Times | 02.19.2013
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, will present arguments before the Supreme Court asserting...
By Central Valley Business Times, Central Valley Business Times | 02.19.2013
Tonya Ann Collins, 37, formerly of Modesto, has pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts of wire fraud in connection with...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.18.2013
Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the...
By Jamie Doward, The Guardian | 02.16.2013
Private firms will soon be able to buy people's medical and genetic data without their consent and, in certain cases...
By Daniel Miller, Daily Mail | 02.16.2013
The parents of an 'affectionate' 21-year-old woman with Down's syndrome have been forbidden from having her sterilised despite their concerns...
By Rick Morton, The Australian | 02.15.2013
Cancer Voices Australia brought the case as it believed Myriad Genetics Inc, which owns the patent on the genes BRCA1...
By Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics | 02.15.2013
Yesterday Intelligence Squared held a debate (watch it in its entirety here) on whether we should prohibit genetically...
By Eric Hoffman and Jeff Conant, Global Forest Coalition | 02.14.2013
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The industrial revolution replaced wood for fossil fuels as the driver of the engine of...