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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 David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 05.23.2017

C. Randal Mills, the 45-year-old CEO of California’s $3 billion stem cell research program, is a man who loves his...

A judge's gavel sits upon an opened book.
By Jim Provance, The Blade | 05.22.2017

New rule allows inmates to appeal lower courts decision

COLUMBUS—Inmates already on death row may appeal a lower court’s decision...
A young mother holds a daughter with their heads gently touching. Their backs are away from the camera.
By Sneha Banerjee & Sarojini Nadimpally, The Wire [India] | 05.20.2017

Uterus transplants raise several ethical concerns drawing from the health risk posed to women, especially since the surgery is not

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A gloved hand holds several connected test tubes filled with clear liquid.
By Anthony M. DeStefano, Newsday | 05.19.2017

A special state committee Friday approved a recommendation that New York State adopt the use of familial searching, an emerging...

Someone puts a coin into a piggy bank that has bandages on its side. A doctor's stethoscope surrounds the piggy bank.
By Maryam Zaringhalam, Slate | 05.18.2017

Which makes the AHCA’s removal of protections so much more frightening.

As currently written, the American Health Care Act allows...

Graphic of a double helix, with two nuceobase pairs highlighted as if being destroyed.
By Dietram A. Scheufele and David Beier, Scientific American | 05.18.2017

A report from the National Academies says scientists alone can't make the call—they must engage with the broader public

Meaningful...

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By Abby Olena, The Scientist | 05.18.2017

Sangamo Therapeutics will use zinc finger nucleases to introduce the gene for a missing clotting factor into the livers of

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A woman of color holds a circular glass object in her opened left palm.
By Jeremy Lent, Alternet | 05.17.2017

Will social inequality soon be programmed into our DNA?

The chasm between rich and poor in the world has become...