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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...

"Proceed with caution" traffic sign, against a blue sky.
By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 10.02.2016

News broke this week that the first “three-parent” baby had been born. But the untested and controversial nature of the...

A small, spotted pig is in a bucket. The background features a secondary pig.
By John H. Evans, Oxford University Press Blog | 10.01.2016

The US government recently announced that it was lifting its moratorium on funding certain experiments that use human stem cells...

Doctor extracts blood from a patient.
By Viv Groskop, The Guardian | 10.01.2016

A new prenatal test could eradicate Down’s syndrome. Actress Sally Phillips, who has a child with the condition, explains why

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A clock with Roman numerals is surrounded by various clock gears.
By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 09.30.2016

From designer babies to engineered mosquitoes, advances in genome-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 have raised the possibility of tremendous scientific...

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By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 09.30.2016

For the first time in almost 25 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pay for In Vitro Fertilization...

Black book titled "Eugenics"
By Marina Fang & JM Rieger, The Huffington Post | 09.28.2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in...

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By Maggie Fox, NBC News [citing CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.28.2016

A healthy baby boy has been born after he was conceived using a "three-parent" technique to manipulate his DNA, doctors...

A mastiff dog poses lying down on its stomach,with reading glasses on its face, and a book at its side.
By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion | 09.28.2016

It was after a home invasion almost a decade ago that David Ishee first got interested in breeding dogs. A...