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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 Larry R. Churchill Nancy M. P. King Gail E. Henderson, Hastings Center Report | 06.29.2020

Abstract

The Covid‐19 pandemic has concentrated bioethics attention on the “lifeboat ethics” of rationing and fair allocation of scarce medical...

Uighur Muslims
By AP, Associated Press | 06.28.2020

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The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and...

By Cecily Huang, ABC [Australia] | 06.27.2020

When Teresa Xu stood in a Beijing courtroom last December to demand equal access to reproductive rights, she knew she...

Forensic DNA
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 06.26.2020

As washing machines go, the one that contributed to Roy Verret’s capital murder charge was pretty average. White, Whirlpool, reliable...

By Ben Fidler, BioPharma Dive | 06.26.2020

Dive Brief:

  • Two children with a rare neuromuscular disease have died after receiving a high dose of a gene therapy...
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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.26.2020

Directors of the financially strapped, California stem cell agency this morning endorsed a $5.5 billion bond measure to refinance the...

Portrait of Linnaeus
By Alan Goodman, Discover | 06.25.2020

Carl Linnaeus, who defined four varieties of humans in the 18th century
Portrait by Alexander Roslin; cropped photo by Nationalmuseum, Sweden

A friend...

Clamps adjusting DNA
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.25.2020

A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can...