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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...

Several chess pieces are photographed in black and white, with an emphasized black king piece standing tall.
By Sheila Kaplan, STAT | 12.05.2016

Sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act call it a win-win: a fusion of funds for medical research with new...

Black and white photo of a woman laying in a hospital bed.
By Geeta Nargund, BioNews | 12.05.2016

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Severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious and potentially fatal condition caused by overstimulation of...

Microscopic image of stem cell.
By David Wagner, KPBS | 12.05.2016

San Diego-based Stemgenex is asking regulators to let patients have access to stem cell treatments it calls "life-altering." But patients...

Portrait photo of Osagie Obasogie.
By Sara Grossman, Haas Institute, UC Berkeley | 12.02.2016

Osagie K. Obasogie is the new Haas endowed chair of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster. Obasogie, Professor...

Close -up photo of Donald Trump at a press conference.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.01.2016

Of all the memorable lines from this year’s election, the one I keep returning to months later—for self-interested reasons—is from...

Magnifying glass
By Martin H. Johnson, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 12.01.2016

This editorial comments on a paper from Chen et al. (2016)), published in this issue of RBM Online, in...

A man dressed in scrubs peers into a large microscope-like device and examines a specimen.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 11.30.2016

Specialists poised to offer mitochondrial replacement therapy if government’s fertility regulator approves the treatment

Doctors will seek permission this month...

Mitochondria mammalian lung
By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American | 11.30.2016

A promising technique to prevent mothers from passing on devastating mitochondrial diseases was thrown a biological curve ball this week...