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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 Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 01.08.2010
The Medical Board of California has accused a Beverly Hills fertility doctor of a pattern of gross negligence that led...
By Jessica Fargen, Boston Herald | 01.08.2010
A 35-year-old mother of nine is suing a Springfield hospital, three doctors and two nurses, claiming they permanently sterilized her...
By Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.07.2010
Parental demand for “designer babies” screened to lack faulty genes will grow dramatically over the next decade, with new discoveries...
By Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.07.2010
Spitting is not an activity that has traditionally carried much social cachet. Yet at New York Fashion Week and the...
By Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.05.2010
Only five years ago scientists knew almost nothing about the genetic factors that influence common diseases.
Although major mutations that...
Although major mutations that...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.28.2009
Only one man seems to have ever been cured of AIDS, a patient who also had leukemia. To treat the...
By James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal | 12.26.2009
State money that was allocated during the summer for the benefit of sterilization victims still has not been spent, and...
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.24.2009
A federal judge refused Wednesday to block a voter-approved California law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to provide...