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Deaf Power Poster
As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called...
The November general election ballot includes two statewide propositions that address health issues. Proposition 14 asks voters to extend the...
The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and...
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...
Policies
The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...
In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...
JEFF JOHNSON WAS in a hurry. His lunch break was nearing its end, and he needed to catch the 6 train...
An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to...
Society
Last week, private equity mega-firm the Blackstone Group announced a deal to acquire Ancestry, the genealogy and direct-to-consumer DNA testing...
Louis Agassiz after the 1906 earthquake; photo by Frank Davey
The first time I saw the Stanford campus, back in...
WE ARE LIVING through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and...
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...
Perspectives
As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the...
In the winter of 1959, after leading the Montgomery bus boycott that arose from the arrest of Rosa Parks and...
No one is more important to the history of environmental conservation than John Muir — the “wilderness prophet,” “patron saint...
Ben and Abbie Rosenberg’s relationship got its start the old-fashioned way. Not their initial meeting—that happened on Jdate, a Jewish...