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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 Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 05.05.2009
The recent media storm over the in vitro fertilization-induced birth of octuplets has receded into the tabloids and entertainment pages...
By Françoise Baylis, Toronto Globe and Mail | 05.04.2009
I recently had the privilege of going to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa to listen to the Attorney-General...
By Bob Grant, The Scientist | 04.30.2009
Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a...
By James Pomfret, Reuters | 04.30.2009
With China's rising affluence, increasing numbers of infertile couples have been seeking surrogate mothers to bear them babies.
In recent...
In recent...
By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post | 04.30.2009
Africans are more diverse genetically than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined, according to a sweeping study...
By Scientific American, Scientific American | 04.30.2009
On March 3 the cover story of the New York Daily News trumpeted a simple imperative to "Design Your Baby."...
By Alex Wayne, Congressional Quarterly | 04.28.2009
As the Obama administration prepares to greatly expand the government's investments in embryonic stem cell research, the next big biomedical...
By Sarah Barr and Jeannie Baumann, The Bureau of National Affairs | 04.27.2009
The National Institutes of Health April 17 released draft
guidelines that would limit government-funded research using human
embryonic stem cells...