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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 Editorial, Nature | 06.28.2016

Jesse Gelsinger was 18 and healthy when he died in 1999 during a gene-therapy experiment. He had a condition called...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 06.27.2016

In biotech, your company is only as good as its intellectual property. And the Supreme Court on Monday left a...

By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion | 06.27.2016

When queried about the present state of biotechnology, Kevin Esvelt tends to sound more like a science skeptic than a...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.27.2016

New York University’s medical school has quietly shut down eight studies at its prominent psychiatric research center and parted...

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By The Economist, The Economist | 06.25.2016

The project to understand the human genome has long promised to revolutionise the way that diseases are diagnosed, drugs are...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.25.2016

It is tempting to provide an alarmist answer to this question. Yet it is wise to avoid the apocalyptic tone...

By Tim Buckland, Star News Online | 06.25.2016

LELAND -- After years of battles with the state, Elnora Mills is still waiting for a final payment from a...

By Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech | 06.24.2016
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CRISPR Therapeutics has raised an additional $38 million as part of its Series B raise, bringing its total...