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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 Victoria Stagg Elliott, amednews.com | 06.28.2010
The American Medical Association opposes the patenting of human genes and related naturally occurring mutations, according to policy adopted June...
By Nancy Gibbs, TIME | 06.28.2010
Right about now, it would be great if we could release into the Gulf of Mexico a vat of bugs...
By Alok Jha, The Guardian (UK) | 06.24.2010
Human genetic information must be kept in the public domain to allow researchers to analyse it and to give members...
By Charles Wohlforth, Orion Magazine | 06.24.2010
THE RAIN HAD JUST STOPPED in the little eastern Kansas town of Osawatomie when thirty thousand people, gathered in an...
By DutchNews, DutchNews | 06.22.2010
The DNA database operated by the Dutch forensic institute NFI has over 100,000 names, the organisation said on Tuesday.
And...
By Jessica Ramirez, Newsweek | 06.21.2010
Who doesn't love a pretty baby? According to one company, the better question might be who doesn't want one? The...
By Faye Flam, Philadelphia Enquirer | 06.21.2010
In 1998, Penn geneticists Arupa Ganguly and Haig Kazazian were ordered to stop offering women a test for genetic mutations...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 06.18.2010
Ten years ago this month, we were definitively told that race is scientifically invalid, supposedly ending centuries of debate over...