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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 S.A., The Economist | 12.18.2012
IN OCTOBER, Varsha Deshpande persuaded a pregnant friend to travel eight hours to Aurangabad, a thriving, medium-sized city in the...
By Beth Marie Mole, The Scientist | 12.18.2012
In the not-so-distant past, testing an unborn baby for Down syndrome and other severe genetic disorders required a procedure with...
By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 12.17.2012
When cosmetic surgeon Allan Wu first heard the woman's complaint, he wondered if she was imagining things or making it...
By Patricia Williams, LOG: Journal of Architecture and Urbanism | 12.17.2012
Sometimes it’s hard to count on the sustained attention of university students, distracted as they are by an excessively twittering...
By Julian Hitchcock, BioNews | 12.17.2012
By John Pavlus, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2012
Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering...
By Carolyn Abraham and Carolynne Wheeler, The Globe and Mail | 12.15.2012
In the South China city of Shenzhen, a thriving manufacturing hub known for cheap goods and high-tech electronics, the genetic...
By Melody Petersen, The Orange County Register | 12.14.2012
The panel of scientists reviewing grant requests at California's stem cell funding agency didn't like the proposal submitted by UC...