Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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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 Dennis Normile, Science | 07.20.2007
In a sign that hopes for quick medical benefits from stem cells are fading, ES Cell International (ESI)--a company established...
By Rita Rubin, USA Today | 07.16.2007
Jolene Sodano spent more than $200 to make herself crazy for a big chunk of her third pregnancy.
You see...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.15.2007
By Peggy Orenstein, New York Times Magazine | 07.15.2007
Two Years ago, when Catherine was in sixth grade, she was given a school assignment that would have been unremarkable...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.15.2007
MORE than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of the drugs used...
By Editorial, Sacramento Bee | 07.14.2007
To boost their development bid in Yolo County, the Tsakopoulos family has enlisted Robert Klein II, chair of the California...
By Will Saletan, Slate | 07.13.2007
This week, some big thinkers about biotechnology came to Washington for a "progressive bioethics summit." They invited me to go...
By The Readers and Editors of The Scientist, The Scientist | 07.12.2007
Nuclear transfer research encompasses some of the most compelling biological and ethical puzzles of our time. In an online publishing...