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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...

A woman is looking at her smart mobile phone.
By Selena Larson, CNNMoney | 09.28.2016

Picking a sperm donor is now like picking a partner for people in the UK.

The London Sperm Bank's new...

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By Emily Willingham, Forbes [citing CGS] | 09.28.2016

A U.S. fertility specialist, foiled by U.S. regulations, took his tools to Mexico to tweak human cells into developing into...

Dr. John Zhang, New Hope Fertility Center (New York City).
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.28.2016

A reported world-first in fertility therapy — a baby boy conceived using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three...

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By Melanie Evans, Wall Street Journal | 09.25.2016

The race is on to develop better ways to predict if patients will develop diabetes, heart disease or other critical...

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By Dave Mosher, Business Insider | 09.24.2016

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may reportedly still engage in a banned practice that manipulates popular news coverage...

Illustrated image of double helix
By Rachael Rettner, LiveScience [citing CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.23.2016

Scientists in Sweden have become the first to edit the genetic material in healthy human embryos, but what exactly are...

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By Leonid Schneider, For Better Science | 09.23.2016

The tide is turning for the fallen star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who transplanted numerous patients with lethal tracheas made...

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By Eric Niiler, Seeker | 09.23.2016

A Swedish medical researcher has taken another step toward eventually being able to engineer a custom-made human being. The experiment, ...