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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 Ëlo Luik, BioNews | 06.20.2016

Discounted Life is compassionate, critical and somehow as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking. Most of all it is an utterly captivating...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.20.2016

The first proposed test of CRISPR gene-editing technology in human beings is being funded by Internet billionaire Sean Parker, MIT...

By Sandra G. Boodman, The Washington Post | 06.20.2016

Maggie Eastman considers it the worst decision she ever made.

In 2003, beset by $30,000 in tuition debt and imbued...

By Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.20.2016

A semen centrifuge is the newest direct-to-consumer fertility device on the market. The Trak, a desktop gadget that measures a man’s sperm count...

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 06.20.2016

The Supreme Court issued an extraordinarily disappointing 5–3 decision on Monday in Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case...

Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital.
By Associated Press [Urayasu, Japan], The Guardian | 06.20.2016

A Tokyo suburb will help women cover the cost of freezing their eggs in a pilot programme that aims to...

By James D. Miller, Business Insider | 06.19.2016

Once we understand the genetic architecture of human intelligence, couples will use existing fertility technologies to increase their offsprings' average...

By Melody Petersen, The Los Angeles Times | 06.19.2016

The ads for the new blood test, dubbed “the cancer stethoscope,” were designed to grab attention from even the healthiest...