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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 Brandon Keim, Wired | 08.19.2008
When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 08.19.2008
Two closely watched companies that offer consumers information about their genes have received licenses that will allow them to continue...
By Mayank Tewari , Daily News and Analysis | 08.16.2008
MUMBAI: Maharashtra is losing its daughters to sons pre-selected at in vitro fertilisation (IVF) laboratories abroad and delivered in India....
By Melinda Wenner, Scientific American | 08.15.2008
It's an Olympics year, which means that Lee Sweeney's phone is ringing off the hook. Athletes call him three or...
By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service | 08.14.2008
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India's Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting...
By Rick Lovett, National Geographic News | 08.14.2008
Although athletes at the Beijing Olympics have been subjected to some of the most aggressive testing ever for performance-enhancing drugs...
By Patrick Barry, ScienceNews | 08.13.2008
This month - 8/8/08, to be precise - the curtain rose on what many experts believe could prove to be...
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 08.12.2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Geron and Exeter Life Sciences said today that Start Licensing, a joint venture between the...