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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 Arit Udoh, BioNews | 09.01.2015
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Access to IVF may serve as 'fertility insurance' for women, making them more inclined to delay motherhood and...

By Kevin Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.01.2015
A state agency kicked off one of the world’s largest stem cell banks Monday in an effort to bolster research...
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.01.2015
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After dozens of unsuccessful treatments, Eric Dishman started to suspect that his illness was due to something other...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.31.2015

Genetic counselor Emily Hardisty sat across from three salespeople from the San Diego biotech company Sequenom two weeks ago. The...

By Dhvani Mehta and Yashaswini Mittal, The Wire | 08.31.2015

On August 24, it was reported that the former Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, had written to the Prime Minister...

By Carina Storrs, CNN | 08.30.2015
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A person may not have to "see color" to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people...

By Robin Marantz Henig, NPR | 08.28.2015
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With egg freezing being touted as a way for women to potentially expand future childbearing options, the viability...

By Matthew S. Bajko, Bay Area Reporter | 08.27.2015
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As a bill protecting the rights of same-sex parents who use sperm and egg donors advances in Sacramento...