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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 Katie Nelson, The Daily Cal | 05.24.2010
UC Berkeley has found itself in the center of a genetics war after it announced last week that its "On...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 05.21.2010
The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life, by synthesizing an...
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb News | 05.21.2010
The White House has wasted no time in addressing yesterday's news that scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have...
By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.21.2010
Genetic watchdog groups want UC Berkeley to suspend plans to ask incoming freshmen and transfer students to supply a DNA...
By Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press | 05.21.2010
A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire...
By Kellia Ramares, Free Speech Radio News | 05.21.2010
In a major scientific advance, researchers in Maryland have created
what they are calling the first synthetic cell. Scientists first...
By Tamar Lewin, New York Times | 05.20.2010
The Center for Genetics and Society, a nonprofit group based in Berkeley, is calling for the University of California, Berkeley...
By Kim Carollo, ABC News | 05.20.2010
Incoming freshmen at the University of California-Berkeley who dread the thought of college exams will at least get to start...