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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 Emily Bazar, The Washington Post | 07.26.2016

Linda Smith learned last summer that she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of a lifetime spent...

By David Masci, Pew Research Center | 07.26.2016

Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental...

By Ed Cara, Medical Daily | 07.26.2016

Fond as we are of superheroes on the big screen, most of us would stop short of actually becoming one via...

By Elizabeth Woyke, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

Colon cancer is less common in India than in the U.S., but it tends to affect younger people and...

By Arlene Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing...

By Jocelyn Stried, Margaret Hayden, Rahul Nayajk & Cameron Nutt, STAT | 07.25.2016

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and...

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Guardian | 07.25.2016

The astute woman of child-bearing age develops a facility to tune out of alarmist headlines about the biological clock...

By Chung Hyun-chae, The Korea Times | 07.24.2016

Korea's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has rejected the registration of a stem cell line, dubbed NT-1, created...