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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 Rachel Emma Silverman, The Wall Street Journal | 12.15.2015
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Employers want workers to know what’s in their genes.

A handful of firms are offering employees free or...

Landscape photo shows an iceberg. Below the water, the iceberg continues to deepen.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New Yorker | 12.14.2015

Specter highlights exciting developments in the field of gene editing, but he is too quick to dismiss the shadow side...

By Oliver Moody, The Times | 12.14.2015
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The Church of England could agree to the genetic modification of human embryos, its medical ethics adviser has...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post [Canada] | 12.13.2015
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Health Canada has made just two attempts to enforce its controversial fertility law since early 2014, mildly rebuking...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 12.12.2015
Untitled DocumentInstitutional review boards (IRBs), designed to serve as gatekeepers protecting patients from unethical human research practices, are under...
By Robin Marantz Henig, National Geographic | 12.11.2015

Some people are taller than others. Others have wider hips, lighter hair, longer toes, or flatter feet. No one disputes...

By Eleonore Pauwels & Jim Dratwa, Scientific American | 12.10.2015
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Kannapolis, North Carolina, is a desolate town, plagued by unemployment since the main employer, a textile mill, suddenly...

By Chloe Poston, Genes to Genomes | 12.09.2015

Last week, the National Academies of Science and Engineering joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Royal Society...