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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 Adam S. Cohen, Harvard Magazine | 02.19.2016
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In August 1912, Harvard president emeritus Charles William Eliot addressed the Harvard Club of San Francisco on a...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 02.19.2016
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In July 2015, the major antibody provider Santa Cruz Biotechnology owned 2,471 rabbits and 3,202 goats. Now the...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 02.18.2016
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San Franisco — If you ask people who don’t follow biotech too closely what they know about CRISPR...

By Leena Rao, Fortune | 02.18.2016
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Piraye Yurttas Beim had a shocking request for the makeup artist at the Yves St. Laurent counter at...

By Katie O'Reilly, The Atlantic | 02.18.2016
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When a woman agrees to become a gestational surrogate—meaning she’ll gestate an IVF-created embryo as it grows into...

By Christina Farr, Fast Company | 02.17.2016
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Jennifer Marie* should be an ideal candidate for life insurance: She’s 36, gainfully employed, and has no current...

By Carol Goar, The Star [Toronto] | 02.17.2016
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Former Toronto police chief Bill Blair hailed DNA collection as “a revolutionary crime-fighting tool.”

With a blood...

By Quil Lawrence, NPR | 02.17.2016
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Midway through Matt Keil's second deployment in Iraq, he came home and married his fiancee, Tracy, in 2007...