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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 Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News | 05.31.2016

The National Institutes of Health announced May 27 it would award $142 million to the Mayo Clinic to establish the...

By Danielle Preiss & Pragati Shahi, The Atlantic | 05.31.2016

For the Australian couple Stephen and Michael, having kids involved people from five different countries. Australian law forbids anyone from...

By Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today | 05.29.2016

When doctors try to figure out whether a patient might become addicted to opioid painkillers, they rely on clinical risk...

By Louise Watt, US News & World Report | 05.29.2016

BEIJING (AP) — China's decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand...

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By Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph [UK] | 05.27.2016
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A British scientist will be able to genetically modify human embryos after being given the go ahead from...

By Tina Vasquez, Rewire | 05.27.2016
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The same white supremacy that declared Black men and women to be hypersexual also subjected troubled or abused...

By Jody Allard, Vice | 05.27.2016

The first time a doctor told me he had no idea what was wrong with me, I was six or...

By Martin Enserink, Science Magazine | 05.27.2016

In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access...