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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 Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.19.2016
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The end of the ‘test tube baby’ could be in sight after British doctors launched a new form...

By Colette Shade, VICE Broadly | 01.17.2016
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What will a young woman do for $8,000 dollars? Eight grand is the going rate on a healthy...

By Aubrey Sanders, BreakThru Radio | 01.16.2016
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One of the most profoundly consequential debates modern science has ever faced is unfolding at this very moment...

By Lindsey Hoshaw, KQED | 01.15.2016
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This isn’t an everyday patent dispute.

This is a battle for who invented the powerful gene-editing technique that...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.14.2016
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California’s ambitious, $18 million effort to develop -- in relatively short order -- a stem cell therapy for...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.13.2016
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LaQuenta Caldwell-Moody considered it improper when a pharmacy sales representative tried to take her teenage son, when he...

By Elena Kadvany, Palo Alto Weekly | 01.13.2016
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What began as one Jordan Middle School seventh-grader's research project on the questionable history of the school's namesake...