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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 Alan Martin, Alphr | 03.14.2016
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This week, a number of newspapers announced an intriguing scientific discovery. The Telegraph...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 03.12.2016
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Two days after Christmas 1977, police found Shelley H. dead in her apartment in Long Beach, California. The...

By Alexandra Wolfe, Wall Street Journal | 03.11.2016
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Geneticist Jennifer Doudna, 52, is waiting for the day when she reads about the first baby whose genes...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.11.2016
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At a time when genetic testing and genetically personalized treatments for cancer are proliferating, buoyed by new resources...

By Martin Enserink, Science/AAAS | 03.11.2016
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On 27 February, a court ordered the District of Columbia to pay $13.2 million to Santae Tribble, who...

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 03.10.2016
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The first uterus transplant in the United States has failed, and the organ was surgically removed on Tuesday...

By Ike Swetlitz, STAT | 03.10.2016
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Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit of uncomfortable advice: Embrace racial stereotypes...

By Corey Pein, The Baffler | 03.09.2016
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Narratives are made by the artful omission of facts. Never was this maxim more evident than in a...