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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.08.2016
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The gene-editing technology called CRISPR is probably the fastest-spreading technology in the history of biology.

Here’s one reason why...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 04.07.2016

HIV can defeat efforts to cripple it with CRISPR gene-editing technology, researchers say. And the very act of editing —...

By Charles Piller, STAT | 04.07.2016
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Andrew Conrad, who runs Google’s ambitious biotech offshoot, successfully pushed the company to award a research contract to...

By Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour | 04.05.2016

A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are...

By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 04.04.2016
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African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds...

By Shobita Parthasarathy, The Conversation | 04.04.2016
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The worlds of science, technology and patent law eagerly await the U.S. government’s...

By Anna Foster & Parmida Jafari, The Varsity [University of Toronto] | 04.04.2016
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Not too long ago, ‘designer babies,’ genome editing and gene therapy were futuristic and expensive ideas that were...

Painting of Sir Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics
By Fraser Nelson, The Spectator [UK] | 04.02.2016
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The only way of cutting off the constant stream of idiots and imbeciles and feeble-minded persons who help...