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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 Tony McDonough, Liverpool Echo | 03.28.2016
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A laboratory that does DNA testing for the Jeremy Kyle Show has generated almost half a million pounds...

By Leslie E. Wolf, Erin Fuse Brown, and Laura Beskow, The Conversation | 03.28.2016

On February 25, the White House hosted a forum on the National Institute of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative. This...

By Howard Lovy, Foreword Reviews | 03.24.2016
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If you think the argument over the benefits and risks of genetically modified foods is confusing and contentious...

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By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 03.24.2016
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Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent...

By Kate Lunau, VICE Motherboard | 03.23.2016
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When Feng Zhang was a kid growing up in Iowa, he saw Jurassic Park, like just about...

A human ovary is punctured by an operator who inserts a needle through the vaginal wall and into an ovarian follicle to remove an oocyte for storage.
By Press Association, The Guardian | 03.23.2016
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The number of women choosing to freeze their eggs to have babies later in life has soared, figures...

By AP, Bangkok Post | 03.23.2016
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An American-Spanish same-sex couple opened a high-profile custody battle on Wednesday for a baby girl born to a...

By Lindsay Kalter, Boston Herald | 03.23.2016
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A new study from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided new evidence of a genetic...