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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 Editorial, Nature News | 10.14.2015
Untitled Document In 1975, some 140 scientists met at the Asilomar resort on California’s rocky Monterey Peninsula to discuss the...
By Geha Nath Khanal, Kathmandu Post | 10.13.2015
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Abortion services were legalised in Nepal in September 2002 after much research, advocacy and lobbying at the local...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 10.13.2015
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They are meeting in China; they are meeting in the United Kingdom; and they met in the United...

By Anna Salleh, ABC Science | 10.13.2015
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The very real possibility of creating embryos from stem cells raises ethical issues that need to be debated...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 10.12.2015
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Ancestry.com, a company that's all about the past, wants to tell you about your medical future. The amateur...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 10.12.2015
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The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

It...

By Eleanor Robertson, The Guardian | 10.12.2015
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Hold onto your ovaries folks, womb transplants are here. Ten UK women have been approved for the...

By Rebecca Dimond, BioNews | 10.12.2015
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Genomic medicine has advanced rapidly in recent...