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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 Vandy Muong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post [Cambodia] | 01.02.2016
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Any day now, Cambodia’s first baby conceived in a test tube and implanted in a rented womb will...

By Carl Elliott, Hastings Center Report | 01.01.2016
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Several years ago, the University of Minnesota hosted a lecture by Alan Milstein, a Philadelphia attorney specializing in...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science/AAAS | 12.31.2015
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The red-hot genome editing tool known as CRISPR has scored another achievement: Researchers have used it to treat...

By Ari Ne'eman, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
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Britain’s largest sperm bank has a policy of turning away autistic donors and those diagnosed with other neurological...

By Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service | 12.30.2015

Untitled DocumentA San Diego-based medical diagnostics laboratory paid over $4 million to settle claims it gave kickbacks to physicians...

By Erin McKelle Fischer, Bustle | 12.30.2015
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For couples struggling with fertility, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, has become an increasingly popular choice to facilitate...

By Brooke Borel, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
Untitled Document As a science journalist, a lot of your time is spent reporting on new studies, natural phenomena and...
By Liu Jiaying (trans. Li Rongde), Caixin Online [China] | 12.29.2015
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The government will continue cracking down on surrogacy even though lawmakers recently decided not to pursue a legal...