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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 Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 09.18.2009
Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center recently announced the birth of four monkeys after a procedure that involved...
By Paul Gelsinger, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.17.2009
Ten years ago today, my 18-year-old son, Jesse Gelsinger, died at the University of Pennsylvania in a gene-therapy trial. Who...
By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph (UK) | 09.12.2009
New rules coming into force next month will give scientists working on stem cell research access to samples of blood...
By Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 09.11.2009
The UC Board of Regents has quietly settled a
dozen lawsuits stemming from fertility fraud uncovered nearly 15 years
ago...
By Ben Padley and Ellen Branagh, Press Association | 09.10.2009
The man who discovered DNA fingerprinting demanded a change in the law today to remove the profiles of innocent people...
By Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer | 09.05.2009
A justice reform bill endorsed by Gov. Ted Strickland and passed by the Senate designed to prevent wrongful convictions also...
By The Economist, The Economist | 09.03.2009
MANY of the world’s great innovators started out as hackers—people who like to tinker with technology—and some of the largest...
By Jill Neimark, Discover | 09.02.2009
"For the first two years of her life, my daughter, Katlyn, was knocking on heaven's door every day," says Daisy...