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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 Anne Harding, Reuters | 10.14.2009
Fertility clinic websites aren't doing a great job of explaining the
risks of testing an embryo for genetic disorders before...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France-Presse | 10.14.2009
Scientists have unveiled the first detailed map of the epigenome, the network of chemical switches that regulates activation of human...
By Marcy Darnovsky, New York Times | 10.14.2009
To the Editor:
“The Gift of Life, and Its Price” reports that the fertility industry’s professional organization encourages...
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post | 10.13.2009
A bill to extend until May 2016 the 1999 law that prohibits human cloning for reproductive purposes was passed by...
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press | 10.13.2009
A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in kidneys and other organs and potentially life-saving tissues and cells...
By Stephanie Saul, New York Times | 10.10.2009
Scary. Like aliens. That is how Kerry Mastera remembers her twins, Max and Wes, in the traumatic days after they...
By Margot Cohen, Wall Street Journal | 10.09.2009
On their third trip to India, Rhonda and Gerry Wile finally heard a sound they thought they might never hear...
By Donna Dickenson, Nature Reviews Genetics | 10.07.2009