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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 Rich Remsberg, NPR | 06.01.2011
The shadow selves of American history often don't leave much of a photographic record, but sometimes there are just a...
By Suthiwit Chayutworakan, Bangkok Post | 05.31.2011
Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 05.31.2011
This story is part of an occasional series, "Making Babies: 21st Century Families."
As more women postpone motherhood into...
As more women postpone motherhood into...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 05.29.2011
Last week, Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng wrote about the latest chapter in the debate over genetically modified foods: their...
By Will Guzzardi, Washington Post | 05.26.2011
If Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs House Bill 3238, recently sent to his desk by the state legislature, it will...
By CBC News, CBC News [Canada] | 05.25.2011
Canada's civil liberties watchdog is calling on investigators in the Sonia Varaschin murder investigation to "immediately stop" voluntary DNA sampling...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 05.25.2011
Modern bioethics is grounded in four basic principles: respect for persons (i.e. autonomy), beneficence, nonmalificence and justice. In a recent...
By Jim Yardley, The New York Times | 05.24.2011
India’s increasing wealth and improving literacy are apparently contributing to a national crisis of “missing girls,” with the number of...