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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 Tanya Lewis, The Scientist | 05.19.2016

A Senate committee is today (May 19) taking a first look at a bill that would extend a federal ban...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.18.2016

A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos...

By Kelly Crowe, CBC News | 05.18.2016

Would you read a story if this was the headline: "New study raises questions about an experimental treatment that might...

By Emma Green, The Atlantic | 05.16.2016

Over the past year, Indiana hasn’t exactly been a leader in anti-discrimination law. Last spring, the state faced massive protests...

By Andy Balmer, PLOS Synbio Community | 05.16.2016

Secrecy has long been a part of scientific and innovation practices. Being an ethnographer of laboratories, one occasionally comes up...

By Ian Johnston, The Independent [UK] | 05.15.2016
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The UK’s fertility watchdog is becoming “increasingly concerned” that private clinics are offering ‘add-on’ treatments which have not...

By Dara Mohammadi, The Guardian [UK] | 05.15.2016

As the small motorboat chugs to a halt, three travellers, wind-beaten from the three-hour journey along the Atrato river, step...

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian [UK] | 05.15.2016

A controversial Italian fertility doctor who won international fame for helping women in their 60s get pregnant has been arrested...