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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 Margo Kaplan, The Washington Post | 08.14.2015
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Last month, my husband and I signed forms donating an embryo we had conceived to medical research. Meanwhile...

By CTK, Prague Daily Monitor | 08.13.2015
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Prague, Aug 12 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has the first case of an infant who was born...

By Kevin Loria, Business Insider [Australia] | 08.13.2015

The real reason that we’ve never cloned a human, according to George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University, is...

By Margaret Farenger, The Detroit News | 08.13.2015
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Last year, The Detroit News covered a disturbing story of health inequity. For children, Detroit is the deadliest...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2015
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With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.11.2015
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The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf...

By Dominic Basulto, Washington Post | 08.11.2015
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By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.11.2015
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Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg likes to make faces. But she doesn’t paint or sculpt them, precisely. She doesn’t even...