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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 Sam Roberts, New York Times | 06.15.2009
The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys and girls...
By Kate Devlin, The Telegraph | 06.13.2009
Mandish Dhanjal, a consultant obstetrician, said that the example of celebrity older mothers, such as Madonna and Holly Hunter, gave...
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.12.2009
They'll be as small as your microwave and cheaper than your laptop. And the powerful tools - future gene sequencing...
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 06.10.2009
The price of getting your DNA sequenced just dropped in half--to $48,000.
With the new service, being offered by Illumina...
By Peter Monaghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 06.10.2009
The idea that a person's genes or hormones can lead to criminal behaviour has long been out of favour and...
By Emily Singer, Technology Review | 06.09.2009
Want to share your genome online with friends and family? Find out how well you metabolize B vitamins? Determine if...
By Sophie Goodchild, Evening Standard | 06.09.2009
Fertility clinics are to target lesbians as egg donors after research found they were more likely than heterosexual women to...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Psychology Today blogs | 06.03.2009
The vast majority of children who feel they are too tall or too short - or whose parents feel that...