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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...

An illustration of a spiraling clock displaying roman numerals that circulate.
By Erik Parens, Bioethics Forum | 05.04.2017

Is it reasonable to hope that concerns about “cultural harms” can be integrated into oversight mechanisms for technologies like gene...

Bird's eye view of a doctor holding an iPad that contains a DNA sequence. Another person stands pointing specifically to the sequence.
By Adam Roger, WIRED | 05.04.2017

Of all the provisions of the Affordable Care Act—“Obamacare,” if you’re on a first-name basis—the one that seemed...

A woman holds her stomach in pain as a doctor comforts her.
By Robert Winston, Daily Mail | 05.03.2017

This week I feel ashamed. This newspaper has published evidence of widespread bad practice in my own medical speciality, infertility...

A woman doctor leans over a woman patient's bed, engaged in a conversation The patient has a blood pressure maching attached to her arm.
By Paul Bentley and Sara Smyth, Daily Mail | 05.03.2017

Fertility clinics are today accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to donate eggs for cash and free treatment...

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By Todd Kuiken, Slate | 05.03.2017

Is that something we’re comfortable with?

Sure, the U.S. military has deployed the power of biology and nature before. For...

A laboratory scientist uses a pipette to transfer liquid.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 05.03.2017

GlaxoSmithKline says it has treated a child with Strimvelis, its gene therapy for immune deficiency.

A child in Europe has...

Microscopic image of an egg being fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection
By Haroon Siddique, The Guardian | 05.02.2017

HFEA says it has contacted clinics accused of offering women on low incomes free IVF treatment if they donate eggs

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Close-up image of a DNA double helix, stained in yellow, horizontally placed against a black background.
By The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Japan News | 04.28.2017

The government plans to drastically revise its basic policy on conducting research on human embryos, in an effort to implement...