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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 Edith Honan, Reuters | 11.02.2009
A lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward, a U.S...
By Stuart Blackman, The Scientist | 11.01.2009
A South Korean postage stamp issued in 2005 depicts a scene that is reminiscent of the iconic human evolution cartoon...
By Katherine Harmon, Scientific American | 10.31.2009
Paying a woman for her eggs to use in stem cell research has been a bioethical no-no for years. But...
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed | 10.29.2009
Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron -- in what some...
By Mark Henderson, The Times (UK) | 10.29.2009
Primitive human sperm and eggs and the germ cells that make them have been created from embryonic stem cells in...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 10.28.2009
In a tacit acknowledgment that the promise of human embryonic stem cells is still far in the future, California’s stem...
By Hyoung-Jin Kim, Associated Press | 10.26.2009
A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and...
By Pete Shanks, GeneWatch (Sep-Oct 2009) | 10.22.2009
Pet cloning is a terrible idea - and, we now know, an extremely unpopular one. Cloning endangered species is equally...