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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 JTA, The Forward | 08.27.2015
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Nepal’s Supreme Court has issued an injunction to stop women from carrying surrogate pregnancies, depriving Israel same-sex couples...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 08.26.2015
Untitled Document A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the...
By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 08.26.2015
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Chinese stem-cell scientists have welcomed long-awaited measures that, state media claim, will rein in rogue use of stem...

By Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI | 08.26.2015
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In a unanimous decision, a Washington appeals court has upheld a $50 million verdict in favor of a...

By Bonnie Steinbock, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 08.26.2015
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The Ohio legislature is expected to approve a bill this fall that would make it illegal for doctors...

By Stephen Corry, Truthout | 08.25.2015
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Iconoclasm - questioning heroes and ideals, and even tearing them down - can be the most difficult thing...

By Mic Wright, The Next Web | 08.25.2015
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Blah blah don’t be evil blah blah blah. At some point, Google’s unofficial motto became like the message printed...

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.24.2015
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In the opening to We Have Never Been Modern (1993) sociologist Bruno Latour describes a newspaper report on...