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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 Mike Celizic, The TODAY Show | 03.03.2009
Imagine ordering a baby like dinner: “We’ll take the boy in the Greek-god model, but can you make him 6-foot-4...
By United Press International, United Press International [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.02.2009
The birth of octuplets in California calls attention to a lack of regulation in the field of assisted reproduction, some...
By BBC, BBC News | 03.02.2009
The LA Fertility Institutes run by Dr Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF in the 1970s, expects a trait-selected baby...
By Suzanne Bohan, Bay Area News Group | 03.01.2009
The Los Angeles doctor who performed in vitro fertilization on a 33-year-old woman who gave birth to octuplets in January...
By Philip Sherwell, The Telegraph | 02.28.2009
The Fertility Institutes clinic has just started offering prospective parents the opportunity to select physical traits of future offspring thanks...
By Michelle Nichols and Angela Moore , Reuters | 02.27.2009
Drawn by payments of up to $10,000, an increasing number of women are offering to sell their eggs at U.S...
By Jennifer Bails, Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.25.2009
Don't get Chrissy Glen wrong.
After four years spent coping with the heartache of infertility treatments that didn't work, she...
After four years spent coping with the heartache of infertility treatments that didn't work, she...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 02.24.2009
A handful of biotech companies are racing to market a new generation of tests for Down syndrome, a development that...