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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 Selina Lum, The Straits Times [Singapore] | 08.20.2015

The "difficult" issue of whether the mother of a baby conceived in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) sperm mix-up can claim...

By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun | 08.19.2015
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he College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. is grappling with regulatory and accreditation issues for a private...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.19.2015
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The CEO of the world’s leading DNA sequencing company says he knows how to finally get consumers interested...

By Editorial, Nature | 08.18.2015
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Science is not just for scientists these days. Going on a scuba-diving holiday this summer? Share the temperature...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 08.17.2015
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Genetics has advanced to the point that we can sequence a person's genome, outlining their entire genetic...

By Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Journal | 08.17.2015
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About one out of five couples who come to HRC Fertility, a network of fertility clinics in Southern...

By Vidya Venkat, The Hindu | 08.16.2015
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This week, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) uploaded a slightly modified draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill...

By Patrice Wendling, Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network | 08.14.2015
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Fertility clinics are quick to tout their success rates to attract patients, but are they doing enough to...