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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...

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By New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.20.2016

HOW old is too old to have a baby? For many women in their 30s and 40s, that question nags...

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By ASNA, ASNA | 07.20.2016

(ANSA) - Milan, July 20 - Controversial fertility doctor Severino Antinori was indicted Wednesday for forcibly removing eight eggs from...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 07.20.2016

An important test of gene therapy in Italy is bringing joy and heartbreak to families afflicted with a rare brain...

By Bradley J. Fikes, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 07.20.2016

The modern era’s dramatic advances in medical care relies on more than scientists, doctors and biomedical companies. None of it...

By Michael Cook, Mercatornet | 07.20.2016

In 2004 the editors of the journal Foreign Policy asked several prominent intellectuals to identify the world’s most dangerous idea...

By Renate van der Zee, Al Jazeera [Czech Republic] | 07.19.2016

Ostrava, Czech Republic - "To be able to have children is so important for a woman," says Elena Gorolova. "When...

By Catherine Saint Louis, The New York Times | 07.19.2016

Women undergoing in vitro fertilization have long worried that the procedure could raise their risk for breast cancer.

After...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 07.18.2016

WASHINGTON — At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you’d expect researchers to show pretty slides of the ribbony 3-D structure of the...