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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 Neetu Chandra Sharma, India Today | 07.03.2015
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A bunch of 22 pregnant women seems anxiously waiting to deliver, though without any other emotion attached to...

By Betty Rollin, KQED Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | 07.02.2015


A promising new medical technology has the potential to cure many genetic diseases by deleting or replacing defective...

By Anna Nowogrodzki, MIT Technology Review | 07.02.2015
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For 51 years, newborn babies have gotten a heel-prick test in which their blood is screened for dozens...

By Editorial, Nature | 07.01.2015
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The revelation in April that scientists had edited the genome of a human embryo — an inevitable development...

By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian | 06.30.2015
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The governor has signed a bill that would expand access to DNA testing for people hoping to prove...

By Sarah Dingle, Daily Life [Australia] | 06.30.2015
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Something happened over the weekend in Melbourne which has never happened anywhere before in the world. This is the future...

By Britt E. Erickson, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.29.2015
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A little more than a decade after scientists first unraveled the human genome, some researchers are trying to...

By Rebecca Carr, BioNews | 06.29.2015
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Last month, in a judgment that was hailed as the first of its kind, High Court judge Ms...