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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 Laura Hercher, Wired | 01.14.2013
“So,” the journalist interviewing me asked, “you are for paternalism, then?”
Pause. I feel the linguistic walls closing in on...
Pause. I feel the linguistic walls closing in on...
By Polly March, BBC News | 01.12.2013
A new "egg sharing" programme and an increase in the amount egg donors are compensated have significantly cut waiting times...
By Eric Hoffman, A World of Science | 01.11.2013
Synthetic biology was one of the themes discussed at the Assises du vivant, a forum organized jointly by UNESCO and...
By Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal | 01.11.2013
If you want to get your name splattered all over the web, there’s nothing like recanting your once strongly held...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 01.10.2013
The New York City medical examiner’s office is undertaking an unusual review of more than 800 rape cases in which...
By Medical Express, Medical Express | 01.10.2013
The Stockholm administrative court of appeal recently ruled that the practice of forced sterilisations, which dated back to a 1972...
By Andrea Peterson, Science Progress | 01.09.2013
When it comes to electronic health records, “the switch to cloud is inevitable.” That’s according to Joy Pritts, chief privacy...
By Monya Baker, Nature | 01.09.2013
A paper published in Nature today could dispel a cloud over the hopes of turning a patient’s own cells into...