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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 Keston Ott-Dahl, HuffPost | 03.18.2016
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When my partner Andrea became a surrogate for another lesbian couple we had no idea we would end...

Figure 3. Fundus of patient with retinitis pigmentosa, end stage (Pigment deposits are present all over the retina. Retinal vessels are very thin and optic disc is pale.) Hamel Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2006 1:40 doi:10.1186/1750-1172-1-40 (Wikimedia)
By Katherine Bourzac, MIT Technology Review | 03.18.2016
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A blind woman in Texas is the first person to undergo therapy based on an emerging technology called...

By Amy Speier, The Conversation | 03.17.2016
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In 2008, a friend sent me a link to a Czech company called IVF Holiday. Clicking the link...

Statue of a young boy in the Reflection Garden at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon (Flickr/Mary Harrsch).
By Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week | 03.16.2016

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Portland businessman Jordan Schnitzer owns a billion-dollar real estate portfolio. He has homes in San Francisco...

By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 03.16.2016
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Scientists for the first time have generated a type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy...

By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 03.16.2016
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Personalized medicine—the idea that genetic testing can reveal a person’s unique risks for various illnesses, as well as...

By Edward Hockings & Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.15.2016
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This is a pivotal time for the future of human genetic technologies. New gene editing techniques such as...

By Maurizio Meloni, The Conversation [UK] | 03.15.2016
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Epigenetics, the study of how environmental factors and lifestyle choices influence our genes, has flourished to become one...