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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 Greg Roumeliotos & Mike Stone | 05.24.2016

German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has made an unsolicited takeover proposal to U.S. seeds company Monsanto, aiming to create...

parent and child
By BBC News, BBC | 05.23.2016

Surrogacy laws which prevent single people from claiming parental rights are set to change following a ruling by the Family...

By Filipo Lentzos & Nicholas Evans, The Guardian | 05.23.2016

18-months of deliberation on how to regulate research enhancing the transmissibility and virulence of viruses will end when the National...

Bayer Corporate Headquarters
By Michael J. de la Merced & Chad Bray, The New York Times | 05.23.2016

The German industrial giant Bayer has finally revealed its $62 billion takeover bid for Monsanto as it seeks to create...

Image of a person with gloves holding a petri dish.
By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 05.22.2016

On May 10, about 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and others held an invitation-only event at Harvard. Organisers told invitees not to...

By Reniqua Allen, The New York Times [Opinion] | 05.21.2016
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It all started with these little chocolate colored pink and blue ceramic babies. They were a strange Christmas...

By Shin Sung-Sik, Kang Ki-Heon, and Esther Chung, Joongang Daily [South Korea] | 05.20.2016

The use of fresh egg cells in stem cell research, banned in Korea for years, is being hotly debated by...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 05.19.2016
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The drug industry blames the Food and Drug Administration for driving up the research and development costs of new...