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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 Rob Ferguson, The Star | 10.01.2015

After years of pressure, Ontario has agreed to help infertile women under 43 get pregnant by paying for in vitro...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2015

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The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul...

By Lizzie Wade, Wired | 09.30.2015

When the geneticist Gonçalo Abecasis stood up in front of a group of scientists in 2007 and proposed sequencing 1,000...

By BBC, BBC | 09.30.2015

Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure...

By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science | 09.29.2015
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Yesterday, the Broad Institute Foundry, a synthetic biology laboratory at MIT, announced its new contract with DARPA. The...

By Rich Wordsworth, Motherboard | 09.29.2015

In 2002, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, a deaf lesbian couple from America, made headlines when they chose to conceive...

By Cameron Scott, Healthline | 09.29.2015
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Hacking the human genome has long made for great science fiction theater because it has always seemed fantastically...