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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...

Illustration which displays the shape of Cambodia's borders, colored as if it their national flag. At the center, there is a red outlined temple.
By AFP, Channel News Asia | 11.03.2016

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has become the latest country to issue a ban on commercial surrogacy after curbs on the industry...

Logo of German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) in Cologne.
By Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle | 11.03.2016

Germany is planning a central sperm donor database to make it easier for children to use their legal right to

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Food display of fruits, vegetables, nuts, breads, and meats.
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 11.02.2016

Yet another Bay Area startup is promising to revolutionize health. In the tradition of Theranos, which tried to democratize...

Doctor in white coat, with stethoscope and pens in pockets.
By Casey Ross, STAT News | 11.02.2016

We hear a lot about the wonders of genetic testing, how it can revolutionize medicine and find cures for fatal...

Blue-stained molecular photo of DNA strands.
By Sarah Buhr, Tech Crunch | 11.01.2016

The first whole human genome sequencing cost a whopping $2.7 billion. That didn’t bode well for making any breakthroughs on...

Portrait photo of Dorothy Roberts widely smiling with her arms lightly crossed.
By Brett Milano, Harvard Gazette | 11.01.2016

Professor Dorothy E. Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a leading scholar on legal and biosocial theory, will...

Syringe with needle
By Susan Scutti, CNN | 11.01.2016

Both men and women are responsible for pregnancy, yet the burden of preventing it often falls on one gender. Women...

A dart on a dart board largely misses the bull's-eye  target.
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 10.31.2016

Enthusiasm for precision medicine, from the White House down to everyday physicians, is at an all-time high. But serious...