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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 Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 12.16.2010
The emerging field of "synthetic biology" holds great promise for producing new medicines, cleaning up the environment, and providing alternative...
By Park Si-soo, The Korea Times | 12.16.2010
An appellate court Thursday upheld a ruling that found Hwang Woo-suk — the cloning scientist disgraced for falsely claiming a...
By Harriet A. Washington, Biopolitical Times guest contributor
| 12.13.2010
A momentous act of prudence stands out as the US Food and Drug Administration’s shining hour. In 1962, pharmacologist Dr...
By Victoria Brignell, NewStatesman | 12.10.2010
This is the second in Brignell's series to mark disability history month. "The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget" and ...
By Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang, The Wall Street Journal | 12.10.2010
In a hospital room on the Greek island of Crete with views of a sapphire sea lapping at ancient fortress...
By Jonathan Saltzman, The Boston Globe | 12.10.2010
The long arm of the law just got longer.
The state’s highest court ruled yesterday that prosecutors can indict suspects...
The state’s highest court ruled yesterday that prosecutors can indict suspects...
By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 12.08.2010
Circulating in the blood of pregnant women is the full genome of their unborn child, according to a study published...
By Mary Ann Roser, statesman.com | 12.08.2010
A federal class action lawsuit filed today in San Antonio claims the state “deceptively and unlawfully sold, traded, bartered, and...