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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 John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2016
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Paul Knoepfler is not a scientist given to alarmism, but it’s pretty clear from his informative new book...

By Catherine Bennett, The Guardian | 02.27.2016
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Along with thousands of babies, one of the undoubted benefits of assisted reproductive technology, or ART, has been...

By All Things Considered, NPR, All Things Considered, NPR | 02.26.2016

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UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Dr. Wieck, you referred to novel National Socialist measure introduced...

By Sarah Zhang, Wired | 02.26.2016
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You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.26.2016
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Marina Stajic worked for nearly three decades as director of the forensic toxicology lab at the medical examiner’s...

By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 02.26.2016
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The Cleveland Clinic says it has performed the first uterus transplant in the United States.

This opens up...

By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 02.26.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 02.26.2016
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Genetic information company 23andMe Inc.'s "spit kits" will be available at Walgreens stores, a company leader said Friday...