https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/06/685506578/is-beauty-in-the-eyes-of-the-colonizer
Girls ages 5-18 were asked about what beauty is and how they view themselves. The article shows how the concept of beauty evolves as one gets older and that their idea of it is more influenced by their environment. The girls talked about how they've struggled with insecurity and feelings out of place in social groups filled with people who look nothing like them. It shows how people aren't born with insecurities but socialized to hate things about themselves they can't change.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/01/perspectives-on-gene-editing/
Harvard researchers discuss their thought on CRISPR and gene editing by dividing the article into core topics. They first discuss somatic gene editing which only affects that particular patient and then germline which affects the future generations of that patient. They then discussed the business aspect of it and how companies are finally taking an interest to it and how their main target is helping diseases that have no know cure.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/06/685506578/is-beauty-in-the-eyes-of-the-colonizer
The articles begins by asking the question what do we find attractive and why. It then shifts to explain how European colonization has resulted in white people have set the standard for beauty. Cosmetic surgeries, clothes, or braces are examples of how wealth also plays a part in what society views as beautiful. Women are put in a place where they're deemed as weak for conforming to beauty standards and also ostracized for going against them