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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.10.2016

Five weeks from now, on July 16, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral to...

By Steve Sternberg, US News & World Report | 06.10.2016

A decade after Jean Burns was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she needed a miracle. Even the drugs of last resort...

Red fibers indicate mitochondrial disease.
By Ricki Lewis, PLOS | 06.09.2016

The disconnect was striking between the headline of the news release a few days ago – “Improved method for mitochondrial...

By Tarek Bazley, Al Jazeera | 06.09.2016
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Seven years after creating their first organoid - a three-dimensional organ-bud grown in a test tube - Dutch researchers say the...

By Christopher Moraff, The Daily Beast | 06.09.2016

Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement.

Jones...

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 06.09.2016

If there is a prize for the fastest emerging tech controversy of the century the ‘gene drive’ may have...

By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post | 06.08.2016

It is premature to fight malaria, Zika, Lyme and other diseases with genetically engineered insects or other animals that have been...

By Nelson Michael & Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.08.2016

With an election round the corner, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is coming to the end...