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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 Gary Marchant, Slate | 10.17.2012
This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that...
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.17.2012
StemCells Inc. has a history not much different from those of dozens, even hundreds, of biotech companies all around California...
By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 10.16.2012
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
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By Todd Ackerman, The Houston Chronicle | 10.16.2012
The Food and Drug Administration has informed the Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's adult stem-cell procedure that...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 10.16.2012
Rarely has such a spectacular scientific claim been debunked so rapidly. For a few brief hours last week, Hisashi Moriguchi...
By Vaughan Bell, Guardian [UK] | 10.13.2012
German police had been quietly tracking a serial killer for years but in 2007 the case exploded into headline news...
By Jon Bardin, Los Angeles Times | 10.12.2012
Scientists have performed the first successful neural stem cell transplant into the brains of four boys with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. The...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 10.11.2012
(Reuters) - They're called discreet DNA samples, and the Elk Grove, California, genetic-testing company easyDNA says it can handle many...