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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 Adele Waters, Mirror | 04.22.2008
Every year, thousands of women suffer terrible physical side-effects and heartbreak as they go through gruelling IVF in their desperation...
By Donna Dickenson, The Sunday Times | 04.20.2008
In one corner, wearing black trunks and a red biretta: Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Roman Catholic Church in...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 04.20.2008
Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted by American courts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes...
By Robert Langreth and Matthew Herper, Forbes | 04.18.2008
The flashy new industry of personalized gene testing is experiencing some early blowback.
Over the last six months, New York...
Over the last six months, New York...
By Roger Highfield, Telegraph | 04.18.2008
A novel kind of test tube reproduction is to be used to help save one of the world's rarest animals...
By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu, Washington Post | 04.17.2008
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and...
By Steve Connor, The Independent | 04.15.2008
Politicians have been warned not to block scientific inquiry into subjects such as stem cells and embryo research just because...
By Richard Hayes, Washington Post | 04.15.2008
In an essay in Sunday's Outlook section, Dartmouth ethics professor Ronald Green asks us to consider a neo-eugenic future of...