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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 Laura Crimaldi, Boston Herald | 01.25.2009
Most infertile couples hope to receive an egg from a woman who is simply in good health, but a West...
By Jesse Reynolds, Newsday | 01.23.2009
Stem cell research may soon make headlines again. The restrictions on federal funding imposed by former President George W. Bush...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.23.2009
In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from...
By Jesse Reynolds and Susan Fogel
| 01.21.2009
Dear Members of the NYSTEM Ethics Board:
We are supporters of embryonic stem cell research who wish to express our...
By Tom de Castella, Telegraph | 01.21.2009
There is a scene in The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh’s novella of 1948, that takes place at a fictional pet...
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 01.18.2009
In a search for their ancestors, more than 140 people with variations of the last name Kincaid have taken DNA...
By Loretta Johnston, The Examiner (Australia) | 01.15.2009
CLONED Tasmanian tigers would be "freak shows" in captivity, a Tasmanian wildlife biologist said yesterday.
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By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 01.15.2009
In vitro fertilization, which thousands of women undergo each year in the hope that it will give them the same...