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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 Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura | 04.26.2016
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On August 17, 1920, the Topeka Daily Capital reported an exciting development: a new class of competition had been added...

By Oliver Holmes, The Guardian [US] | 04.26.2016
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A same-sex couple have won a legal battle in Thailand against the surrogate mother who gave birth to...

By Sarah Zhang, WIRED | 04.25.2016
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In a world with porous borders and wildly divergent surrogacy laws, making a baby can be a global...

By Joseph Stramondo, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog | 04.25.2016
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According to a recent article in the popular press, a California based biotech firm, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, has...

Elizabeth Parrish, CEO, BioViva USA Inc.
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 04.25.2016
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Last year, Elizabeth Parrish, the CEO of Seattle-based biotech firm BioViva, hopped a plane to Colombia, where she...

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | 04.25.2016
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For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public...

By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 04.23.2016
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American regulators have allowed the cultivation and sale of two crops modified with the gene-editing technique known as...

By Ashley Dawson, Jacobin | 04.22.2016
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Puerto Rico’s first Zika case was confirmed in December, and the island’s governor declared a public health emergency...