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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 Antonucci, San Jose Mercury News | 04.04.2008
Stores already are putting up their gift displays for Mother's Day. And consumers have turned their fashion attention to the...
By Brandon Keim, Wired | 04.03.2008
Think twice before you act on the recommendations of a genetic test.
That's the warning from genetic-industry watchdogs, who note...
That's the warning from genetic-industry watchdogs, who note...
By Alok Jha, The Guardian | 04.02.2008
Britain's first human-animal hybrid embryos have been created, forming a crucial first step, scientists believe, towards a supply of stem...
By Randolph Schmid, Associated Press | 04.01.2008
Having sons is important to many Asian cultures, and now U.S. families from those groups seem to be asserting the...
By Malcolm Ritter, Woodland Daily Democrat | 03.31.2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes...
By Ian Johnston, Telegraph | 03.30.2008
Britain's wildest animal could be cloned to save the species from becoming extinct within 10 years.
The number of Scottish...
By Rebecca Clarren, Salon.com | 03.29.2008
Behind locked doors, past a shower, where humans are required to rinse, more than 25 pink pigs crowd into hay-covered...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 03.25.2008
In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes...