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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 Associated Press, New York Post | 09.10.2015
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SORKHI, India — When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional...

By Matthew W. Hughey & Devon R. Goss, USAPP Blog [London School of Economics and Political Science] | 09.10.2015
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With the years of racially segregated sports now long behind us, many would consider that sports coverage is...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.10.2015
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It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.10.2015
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In 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-year-old Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish...

By Staff Reporter, Want China Times | 09.10.2015
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Chinese companies in the field of genetic testing are charging extremely low prices for their services in the...

By Judith Levine, Seven Days [Vermont] | 09.09.2015
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By the time you read this, Ohio may be the second state to outlaw abortion of a fetus...

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.08.2015
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The European Parliament today voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale...

By Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post | 09.08.2015
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In April 2015, a paper by Chinese scientists about their attempts to edit the DNA of a human...