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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.15.2021

The tiny clump of mouse cells didn’t look like an ovary. For one thing, it was much smaller, microscopic. And...

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By Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 07.14.2021

In 2019, the World Health Organization convened an Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of...

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By s.e. smith, The Nation | 07.14.2021

Imagining better worlds can help us improve our own, but literary and cinematic utopias often exclude those who don’t fit...

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By Pam Belluck, New York Times | 07.14.2021

The Cleveland Clinic Miller Family Pavilion
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In a striking reflection of concern...

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By Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe | 07.13.2021

At least half-a-dozen private health insurers in some of the nation’s largest states are balking at covering Biogen’s controversial drug...

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By Carl Elliott, Hastings Center Report | 07.13.2021

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Activism is rare among clinical ethicists because the position of ethics consultant is constructed in a way that makes...

a gloved hand holding up a sheet of paper with a DNA sequence on it.
By Justin Jouvenal, Boston Globe | 07.13.2021

The Exxon clerk never got a good look at the assailants who robbed him at gunpoint in Fairfax County, so...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 07.12.2021

A committee of experts working with the World Health Organization on Monday called on the nations of the world to...