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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 David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.07.2016
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If you are interested in the buying and selling of human eggs, you might want to take in...

By Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.07.2016

SAN FRANCISCO — Uncle Sam wants you to turn over your health records. And Dr. Robert Califf, the cardiologist who...

By Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 06.06.2016

CHICAGO — Vice President Biden on Monday announced the launch of a first-of-its kind, open-access cancer database to allow researchers...

By Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 06.06.2016

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CRISPR - get to know this acronym. It's good...

By Kevin Rawlinson & Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 06.06.2016

Scientists trying to grow human organs inside pigs in an attempt to tackle a shortage of donors have successfully created...

By Charles Piller, STAT News | 06.06.2016

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google employees, squeezed onto metal risers and standing in the back of a meeting room, erupted...

By Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.06.2016

Move over, Big Pharma. Big Biotech is coming for you.

As drug developers and investors from around the world gather...

By Celia Luterbacher, Swiss Info | 06.05.2016

Sunday's vote, in which 62.4% of people backed the change, is the second time in a year that the Swiss have...