Spring 2024 Forever Chemicals, Forever Troubles Alice Abler Some of our favorite modern conveniences trace their origins to a chemistry lab. While they may make life easier today, future generations will pay a high price.
Winter 2022 Luck of the (Genetic) Draw Dan Cloer If we’re all 99.9 percent the same genetically, does DNA have any impact on our chances of success in life?
Article Collection The Brave New World of Baby-Making Vision examines the past, present and possible future of procreation as it unfolds under the watchful eye of science.
Fall 2019 The ART of Having Children Dan Cloer Medical doctor Robert Klitzman talks about our increasing ability to design babies to our personal specifications.
Summer 2019 The New Techno-Eugenics Dan Cloer In the face of new technology allowing scientists to manipulate genes in human embryos, how will we move forward?
Spring 2018 A Lethal Dose Ron Dodgen Synthetic chemicals have become embedded in all aspects of our lives. What will it take to reverse their toxic effect—on our bodies and on our world?
Fall 2017 Your Cells Are Killing You Dan Cloer Immortality may not be an option, but can degeneration and the terrors of aging be lessened or even eliminated? These authors think so.
Discovering the Body’s Ticking Clock We all know we have a “body clock” and that it’s slowly winding down. But researchers are learning more about just what that means.
Fall 2017 How to Undo Aging Dan Cloer Neurobiologist Michael Fossel explains how people’s healthy life spans can be extended and how he believes Alzheimer’s will soon be cured.