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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 David Malakoff, Science | 09.09.2011
The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in nearly 60 years is about to become law. The U.S...
By Jacqueline Mroz, New York Times | 09.05.2011
Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 08.30.2011
A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S. government research...
By Sonia Arrison, The Wall Street Journal | 08.27.2011
In Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Gulliver encounters a small group of immortals, the struldbrugs. "Those excellent struldbrugs," exclaims Gulliver, "who...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 08.24.2011
Myriad Genetics retained its monopoly on a lucrative genetic test for breast cancer risk when a federal appeals court recently...
By Talea Miller, PBS News Hour | 08.23.2011
Peek inside any American family's medicine cabinet and you're likely to find a drug that was tested in a foreign...
By Alison Motluk, Nature | 08.23.2011
The first thing that Alison Hopkins did after finishing her PhD was freeze 14 of her eggs. She knew she...
By Alan Peterson, The Conversation | 08.22.2011
Innovations deriving from genetics research, stem cell research, nanoscience and neuroscience will soon revolutionise medicine.
With the potential for biotechnologies...