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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...

By Ed Silverman, STAT | 08.04.2016
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Even though various federal laws were designed to promote clinical trials for testing products in children, a notable...

By Deborah Ortiz, Sacramento Bee | 08.04.2016
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Assembly Bill 2531 is working its way through the Legislature and would expand the market in women’s egg...

By Kimberly Leonard, US News & World Report | 08.04.2016
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A recent study revealed that sheep created from the same biological matter used to make Dolly, the first...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 08.04.2016
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The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use...

By Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters | 08.03.2016
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This article is accompanied by 14 photographs by Carlos Garcia Rawlins, see the original article on Reuters...

By N.L., The Economist | 08.03.2016
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On August 3rd the British pharmaceutical company GSK said that it would charge €594,000 ($665,000) for a gene-therapy...

By Jeff Bercovici, Inc. | 08.01.2016
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More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a...

By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press | 08.01.2016
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NEW YORK — In a key advance for the study of depression, a comprehensive scan of human DNA...