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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 Danielle Beeton, Sunderland Echo | 01.08.2008
Scientists are offering infertile Wearside women half-price IVF treatment in return for donating some of their eggs for research.
Women...
By Jane Zhang, John Miller, and Lauren Etter, Wall Street Journal | 01.04.2008
Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring.
After more than six...
By William Heisel, Los Angeles Times | 01.03.2008
Troubled by the health history and backgrounds of some anonymous egg and sperm donors, leaders in the fertility industry have...
By Michael Smith, MedPage Today | 12.27.2007
A simple cheek swab can tell you about your ancestry. A bit of blood can tell you how likely you...
By Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Times (UK) | 12.23.2007
Deaf parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has...
By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post | 12.22.2007
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database...
By Melba Newsome, Wired | 12.20.2007
In the summer of 2002, the FBI, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and several other agencies began a massive search...
By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 12.20.2007
Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to valued stem cells that match the tissue types of many...