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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 David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.06.2016
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Formidable capacity in genome sequencing, access to millions of patients and the promise of solid governmental support: those...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.06.2016
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Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving...

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By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post | 01.05.2016
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Which technology promises to most dramatically change our lives? A plausible answer is artificial intelligence -- see part...

By Roland Nadler, Law and Biosciences Blog | 01.04.2016
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Philosopher Russell Blackford argues that regulatory authorities should not allow “the tyranny of mere public opinion”...

By Lydia Ramsey, Business Insider | 01.04.2016
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A gene-editing company that hopes to start using a controversial new technique — which has so far only...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 01.04.2016
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The fight to determine who invented fundamental parts of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology appears to be headed...

By Anna Azvolinsky, The Scientist | 01.04.2016
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Despite a push for transparency in science, full data disclosure may be close to non-existent among published studies...