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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 Susan Gilbert, Bioethics Forum | 08.11.2011
News about simple maternal blood tests that can accurately identify the sex of a fetus, genetic disorders, and other traits...
By Julie Watson, Associated Press | 08.11.2011
SAN DIEGO — She built a name for herself as a highly skilled reproductive law specialist in a state considered...
By Ruth Padawer, New York Times | 08.10.2011
As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead...
By Pam Belluck, New York Times | 08.09.2011
A simple blood test that can determine a baby’s sex as early as seven weeks into pregnancy is highly accurate...
By Jeremy Gruber, Tina Stevens, and Becky McClain, The Berkeley Daily Planet | 08.08.2011
In April of this year, U.C. Berkeley researchers announced the creation of the U. C. Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI)...
By Clive Cookson, Financial Times | 08.05.2011
Genetic testing laboratories in the National Health Service are deliberately ignoring most patents on DNA, experts told a meeting in...
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.05.2011
A voter-approved California law requiring police to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony violates the constitutional privacy...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 08.03.2011
In a slim new volume, Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (Routledge, 2011),...