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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 Sara Reardon, Nature News | 07.21.2015
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The clock is ticking for experts charged with designing a US government programme to collect genetic, physiological and...

By Charlotte Alter, Diane Tsai, & Francesca Trianni, Time | 07.16.2015
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Egg freezing has been hailed as a game-changer for women, an “insurance policy” to revitalize waning fertility, a...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Nation | 07.16.2015

On April 18, scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, published an article in the obscure open-access journal Protein...

By George Annas, Boston University Today | 07.16.2015
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The fertility industry is big business. There are more than 450 fertility clinics in the United States alone...

By Kate Yandell, The Scientist | 07.15.2015
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Scientists have used two methods to generate patient-specific pluripotent stem cells with normal mitochondria for people with defects...

By Susana Medeiros, RegBlog | 07.15.2015
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Scientists are working on synthetically designed microorganisms that may soon produce everything from the fuel in your gas...

By Joshua Rothman, New Yorker | 07.14.2015
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The defining scene of “Sense8,” the new sci-fi drama on Netflix, comes about halfway through the first season...

By Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The New York Times | 07.13.2015
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Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and...