The race to decode the human genome may not be entirely over: the loser has come up with a new...
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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 ANDREW POLLACK, New York Times | 09.12.2007
INDUSTRIAL age foundries made cast-metal parts. Information age foundries, or "fabs," produce computer chips. Now come foundries for the biotechnology...
By Marilyn Chase, Wall Street Journal | 09.11.2007
A new direct-to-consumer ad campaign for a breast-cancer gene test is reigniting a debate over who really needs the test...
By NICHOLAS WADE, New York Times | 09.10.2007
Could people one day evolve to eat rich food while remaining perfectly slim and svelte?
This may not be so...
By Kent Sepkowitz, Slate | 09.10.2007
Scientific fraud comes in several varieties. Data can be fabricated, ideas swiped, experiments gamed. One dramatic version is the too-late...
By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 09.06.2007
"GENETICS is about to get personal." So proclaims the website of 23andMe, a Californian company that is gearing up...
By Monya Baker, Nature Biotechnology | 09.03.2007
With private investors apparently unwilling to back its efforts to bring a product to the clinic, Singapore's flagship stem cell...
By Daily Mail, Daily Mail | 09.03.2007
A fertility watchdog is set to approve the use of human-animal embryos for research.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...